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This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.

Old Rose is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old blue coat All buttoned down before.

When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years.

I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why; A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar, Nor be half so happy as I. . . . . Let the back and side go bare.

The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail, But sets up his rest and makes up his feast, With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.

Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils.

Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain, Queen Anne commands and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away.

When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on, He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one. "With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in, 'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn.

There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin, But the skin within is the skin without Doubled and carried complete throughout.

St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."

In good King Charles's golden days When royalty no harm meant, A zealous high-churchman was I, And so I got preferment.