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272 Songs Compleat,
With an old Hall hung round about with Guns, Pikes,
and Bows,
With old Swords and Bucklers, which hath born many
shrew'd Blews,
And an old Frysadoe Coat to cover his Worship's trunk
Hose,
And a Cup of old Sherry to comfort his Copper Nose ;
Like an old Courtier, &c.
With an old Fashion when Christmas is come,
To call in his Neighbours with Bag-pipe and Drum,
And good Cheer enough to furnish every old Room,
And old Liquor able to make a Cat speak, and a wise
Man dumb ;
Like an Old Courtier, &c.
With an old Huntsman, a Falconer, and a Kennel of
Hounds,
Which never hunted, nor hawk'd but in his own
Grounds :
Who like an old Wise-man kept himself within his own
Bounds,
And when he died gave every Child a thousand old
Pounds.
Like an old Soldier, &c.
But to his Eldest Son, his House and Land he assign'd,
Charging him in his Will to keep the same bountiful
Mind,
To be good to his Servants, and to his Neighbours
kind,
But in the ensuing Ditty, you shall hear how he was
enclin'd ;
Like a young Courtier of the Kings.
Like a young Gallant newly come to his Land,
That keeps a brace of Creatures at's own Command,
And takes up a thousand Pound upon's own bond,
And lieth drunk in a new Tavern, till he can neither
go nor stand ;
Like a young Courtier, &c.
With