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246 ACOI-LECTION
Our hounds and our horfts were ahvuys a- good
As ever broke covert, or daOi'd thro' the wood,
Taleo, &c
Old Reynard runs b:?rd, but mufl: certainly die,
Have at you, old Tony, Dick Dawfon did cry,
Taleo, &c.
The houvls they had run twenty miles now or more,
©Id Anthony fretted^ he curs'd too, and (wore,
Taleo, &c
But Reynard being rpent,.foon mu ft give up the ghoft,
"Which W'll heiji,hten our joys when we come to each
toaft,
Taleo, &c.
The day's fport being over, the horns we will foiindj,
To the' jolly fox- hunters let echo refoiind,
Taleo, &e
So fill up ynur glafies, and cheaffuily drink
To the honeft true fportfnian who never will flirink,
Taleo, &c. *
SONG CCLXXV.
Auld Wife beyont the Fire,,,
THERvE was a wife won'd in a glen,.
And file had dochtcrs nine or ten,
That fought the houfe baith butt and ben;
To find their mam a 0)ithing.
The aula wife beyont the fire.
The auld wife aneift the fire,
The auld Vvife aboon the fire.
She died for lack of fnifhing *.
* Snifhing, ir its literal meaning, is friuff made of tobacfo 5-
b-dt iii thi.s fong it, meaa.s lometimes contcritment, c hulbaadj
Is^vej money, -^c.