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 | Little John And The Giants |  |
SCENE I.
A Wood.Beggars advance.
1st Beg.
Bold Robin Hood,
In the green wood stood—hye derry derry down,
Under the green wood tree:
Tidings there came to him with speed,
Tidings of certainty, hye down, hye derry derry down.
2d Beg.
Pray you, this Robin Hood of whom you sing,
Was he, mayhap, a beggar, or a king?
1st Beg.
Both, both; for, like a gallant prince, my brothers,
He lived but by the toil and spoil of others:
And from the king most Christian, to the Turk,
All men are beggars, mark—who will not work.
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AIR XVII.
Tune. “A begging we will go.”However some in coaches, on barrows some may beg,
'Tis Want that makes the Mendicant, and not the wooden leg.
CHORUS.
When a begging they do go, &c.
'Tis thus by greater poverty, our nobles grow renown'd;
For where we want a penny, State-Beggars want a pound.
CHORUS.
And a begging they will go, &c.
Your Courtier begs for Honour, and that's a want indeed;
As many should for Honesty, but will not own their need.
CHORUS.
When a begging they should go, &c.
Your Vizier begs for Subsidies, your Partymen for Place;
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CHORUS.
When a begging they do go, &c.
Then all, from Rome to London, are of the begging train;
But we who beg for Charity—must look to beg in vain.
CHORUS.
When a begging we do go, &c.
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