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Songs Compleat,
But why then is this pretty Bird,
So lively brisk and merry ;
This rather proves the Queen at ease,
And safe from Purgatory.
An old Star-gazing * Taylor says,
This frolick Bird proclaims ;
How glad all such as he would be,
To welcome home King JAMES.
* Gadbury a
Jacobite Alma-
nack maker.
And Patridge, who can make both Shoes, f Patridge
And Almanacks to boot ■ a Shoe-?naker
Says by this Bird assuredly, now makes Al-
Some Plot is still on Foot. manacks.
For having like an Augur, watch'd,
Which way he took his flight ;
The Robin flew on his left-hand,
And not upon the right.
A Bird once in Rome's Capitol, || ? gai iravra
Said all || things shall be well ; icaXwg. Sueto-
And why this harmless Robin should, nius in the Life
Bode ill I cannot tell. of Domitian.
All we can guess, is from this Bird's
Appearing still alone ;
Which represents our King's Sole case,
Now his fair Queen is gone.
The Robin may have lost his Mate,
So hath King William his ;
And that he may well match again,
Our hearty Prayer is.