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ZEKIEL HOllESPUNs TMP TO TOWN /TimePaddrO
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s PEEP AT TOM TIHUMB . Dood7 Ta « elQ
'-''- Sunp-by M* EMfiKY at Cogent Garden. &c:
I'ze a po of country lad as you see by my dress »
That Pze Yorkshire, mayhap you may pratty well guess,
My neame's Jfcekiel Homespun, you all know me now,
It is not; the first time 1 have here made my bow
H Tol lol de rol, lol de rol, Vol de rol lol.
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To London I comd upon bws'ness » dye see,
But contriv'd to make pleasure and business agree*
For when I gets back,wi 'our chaps on the green, r
They'll be sure to be axing- me what I ha* seen. ~' : .
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Now having in town but a short time to stay, %
Thinks I while the sun shines, I'd better make hay ,
So 1 ax'd what the play were: they told me, by-g"um,
'Twas a very fine tragedy, call'd Tommy Thumb.
In Yorkshire » I d oft heard our knowing ones say,
That a very good moral was learn'd from a play ,
And .that tragedy boasted of language so line,
-Sol thought that as how it might help me wi' mine .
Well, the curtain drew up , and the fir st to appear.
Were two gentlemen, drest to be sure » mortal queer,
Says one "To the King this petition III shew/* »
Then the uther to him answered/l>o, Doodle, do'.'
Ilk next seene*were the King and the ^Kieen on their throne *
To whom the petition was presently shewn-.
But King Arther, from Doodle, indignantly shrunk*
"For 5 / says he^ *Tis our pleasure this day to get drunk;'.'
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So thinks I to myself, an' thats what you're about »
There s no bus'ness for me,to see the play out,
To my own native parts I will quickly go down,
1 can„learn to get drunk there, as well as in town.
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So Iae ta'en me a place at the George and Blue Boar,_
W r here the coach will set off, in the morning at four ,
And as I must be up, long afore it is light ,
I b.ope you 11 not keep me here, to late to night .