II.

With a fermon on Sunday,
And a bible of good print;
With a pot on the fire,

And good viands in't;
With ale, beer, and brandy,

Both winter and fummer,

To drink to my goffip,

And be pledg'd by my cummer.
The pleafures of, &c.

III.

With pigs and with poultry,
And some money in store,
To purchase the needful,
And to give to the poor:
With a bottle of Canary
To fip without fin,

And to comfort my daughter
Whene'er she lies in.

The pleafures of, &c.

IV.

With a bed foft and easy

To reft on at night,
With a maid in the morning

To rife with the light:

To do her work neatly,
And obey my defire,
To make the house clean,

And blow up the fire.
The pleafures of, &c.

V.

With health and content,

And a good easy chair; With a thick hood and mantle,

When I ride on my mare:

Let me dwell near my cupboard,
And far from my foes,
With a pair of glass eyes
To clap on my nose.
The pleafures of, &c.

VI.

And when I am dead,
With a figh let them say,
Our honeft old cummer's
Now laid in the clay :
When young, she was chearful,
No scold, nor no whore;
She affifted her neighbours,
And gave to the poor.

Tho' the flower of her youth
In her age did decay,
Tho' her life like a vapour
Evanish'd away,

She liv'd well and happy
Unto her last day.

The Free Mafon's Song.

I.

OME let us prepare,

Co

We brothers that are

Assembled, on merry occasion:

Let's drink, laugh, and fing,
Our wine has a spring ;

Here's a health to an accepted mason.

II.

The world is in pain

Our fecret to gain, .

And still let them wonder and gaze on:

They ne'er can divine

The word, or the sign,

Of a free and an accepted mason.

III.

'Tis this and 'tis that,

They cannot tell what,

Why fo many great men of the nation Should aprons put on,

To make themselves one,

With a free and an accepted mason.

IV.

Great kings, dukes, and lords, Have laid by their fwords, Our myst'ry to put a good grace on, And ne'er been asham'd

To hear themselves nam'd With a free and an accepted mason.

V.

Still firm to our trust,

In friendship we're just,

Our actions we guide by our reason :

By obferving this rule,

The paffions move cool

Of a free and an accepted mason.

All idle debate

VI.

About church or the state,

The springs of impiety and treason :

These raisers of ftrife

Ne'er ruffle the life

Of a free and an accepted mason.

VII.

Antiquity's pride

We have on our side,

Which adds high renown to our station:
There's nought but what's good

To be understood

By a free and an accepted mason.

VIII.

The clergy embrace,

And all Aaron's race,

Our square actions their knowledge to place on:

And in each degree

They'll honoured be

With a free and an accepted mason.

IX.

We're true and fincere

In our love to the fair,

Who will truft us on every occasion :

No mortal can more

The ladies adore

Than a free and an accepted mason.

X.

Then join hand in hand,

T' each other firm stand,

Let's be merry and put a good face on :

What mortal can boast

So noble a toast

As a free and an accepted mason ?

The Sailor's Rant.

I.

HOW pleafant a failor's life paffes,

Who roams o'er the watery main !

No treasure he ever amaffes,

But chearfully spends all his gain.
We're strangers to party and faction,
To honour and honesty true;
And would not commit a bad action,
For power or profit in view.

CHORUS.

Then why should we quarrel for riches
Or any fuch glittering toy?

A light heart and a thin pair of breeches
Goes through the world brave boy.

II.

The world is a beautiful garden, Enrich'd with the bleffings of life, The toiler with plenty rewarding, Which plenty too often breeds ftrife. When terrible tempests assail us,

And mountainous billows affright; No grandeur or wealth can avail us, But skilful industry steers right. Then why should, &c.

III.

The courtier's more fubject to dangers,
Who rules at the helm of the state,
Than we, that to politics are strangers,
Escape the fnares laid for the great.