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There my true love and I did fport and play
Down among the beds of rofes.
My lovely brown girl, wherever yon be,
There's none in the world I can fancy but fiie.
For never will I change jny old one.
So my pretty brown girl don't leave me.
My father and my mother they often would fay^
That I was a filly boy, and would run away,
No, I'll fuffer myfelf to be laid in cold clay
Down among the beds of rofes.
0~ had I a thoufand bright guineas in (lore,
I would part with them all fur the girl I adore^
I would give 'em all, were they as many more,
Had I a golden coach for to ride in.
SONG CCLXXXIX.
BRITANNIA.
A Song in honour of the gallant Rodney,
Tune, — '' All piall yield to the Mulberry Tree?'^
BEHOLD from far what glad tidings are brought,
What glorious exploits in the Inciies are wrought j
The darling of Neptune, of Britain the pride.
Strikes terror to France, and her fchemes have annoy'd.
Chorus.
All fhall yield to thy maritime fvvay, -
Bleft Britannia homage pay,
Gallia's proud fons fliall trembling own '
The glorious deeds by Britons done.
Of Ruflel's atchievements tradition may boaft.
And tell^ at La Hogue^ how his fieet fwept the coaHj