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FREE-MASONS SONGS. 209
IV.
It is ancienter far
Than other arts are,
Surpaffing all other profelfion :
There’s none can pretend
To dilcover a friend
Like a free and an accepted malbn.
V.
The world is amaz’d.
Their wonder is rais’d.
To fee fuch concurring relation
Among us : they cry.
The devil is nigh
When one is accepted a malbn.
VI.
But let them lay on,
To us ’tis well known
What’s true or falfe in the relation ;
Let’s drink his health round
That is fecret and found,
And a faithful and accepted malbn.
SONG VI.
I.
PR ay don’t deep or think.
But give us fome drink.
For ’faith I’m molt plaguily dry.
Wine cheers up the foul.
Then fill up the bowl.
For ere long you all know we mult die.
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