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Title: Ballads and lyrics
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Lodge, Henry C., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co
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ne at Ware. So turning to his horse, he said, I am in haste to dine,T was for your pleasure you came here, You shall oro back for mine. ( H BALLADS ASD LYRICS. Ah, luckless speech, and bootless boast! For which he paid full dear;For while he spake a braying; ass Did sing most loud and clear. Whereat his horse did snort as he Had heard a lion roar,And gallopd off with all his might As he had done before. Away went Gilpin, and awayWent Gilpins hat and wig; He lost them sooner than at first,For why? they were too h\%. Now Mistress Gilpin, when she sawHer husband posting down Into the country far away,She puird out half a crown; And thus unto the youth she saidThat drove them to the Bell, This shall be yours when you bring backMy husband safe and well. The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain.Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein. But not performing what he meant,And gladly would have done. The frighted steed he frighted more,And made him faster run.
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. n*^. i^ ^^M*^ THE HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN. 95 Away went Gilpin, and away Went post-boy at his heels,The post-boys horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels. Six gentlemen upon the road Thus seeing Gilpin fly,With post-boy scampering in the rear, They raised the hue and cry. Stop thief, stop thief — a highwayman! Not one of them was mute,And all and each that passd that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space,The toll-men thin)cing as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town.Nor stoppd till where he had got up _^ He did ao;ain g:et down. Now let us singr Lono; live the king^, And Gilpin, long live he.And when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see! William Cowper. 96 BALLADS AND LYRICS. MY BONNIE MARY. Go fetch to nie a pint o wine, And fill it in a silver tassie;That I mav drink, before I o-o, A service to my bonnie lassie;The boat rocks at the pier o Leith; Fu loud the

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