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240 FREE-MASONS SONGS.
ni.
Thai, fellows in malbnry, let us rejoice.
In beautiful melody join ev’ry vpice.
Time {han’t overtake us before we can lay.
That we have been eafy, blithe, focial, and gay.
IV.
Adieu, fbber-thinking detraftion and fpleen ;
You ought to be Grangers where mafons convene.
Come, jeft, love, and laughter, ye joyful throng;
You’re free of the lodge, and to mafbns belong.
V.
Let monarchs run mad after riches and power.
Fat gownmen be dull, and philofbphers four ;
While the claret goes round, and the company
lings.
We’re wifer than {ages, and richer than kings.
VI.
Then fill up the goblet, and deal it about;
Each brother will fee it thrice twenty times out.
Our pleafures, as well as our labours, can tell.
How free-hearted mafons all mankind excel.
SONG XXXI.
Tune, 0 ! Polly, you might have toy'd and kifs'd.
I.
YE people who laugh at mafons, draw near.
Attend to my ballad without any fneer.
And if you’ll have patience, you {hall foon fee,
What a fine art is mafonry.