The musical miscellany : being a collection of choice songs, set to the violin and flute, by the most eminent masters . fe:Some Meeting he has burnt, you fee, The Flames ftill in his thought twas time to purge the Crime< And faid, twas his IntentFor to afluage his thirfty Rage; That Meeting twas he meant. Come, Friend, be plain, you trifle in vain; Says one, pray let us know,That we may find how youre inclined, Are you High Church, or Low ?John faid to That, Ill tell you What, To end Debates and Strife,All I can fay, this is the way 1 fteer my Courfe of Life: I neer to Bow, nor Bn


The musical miscellany : being a collection of choice songs, set to the violin and flute, by the most eminent masters . fe:Some Meeting he has burnt, you fee, The Flames ftill in his thought twas time to purge the Crime< And faid, twas his IntentFor to afluage his thirfty Rage; That Meeting twas he meant. Come, Friend, be plain, you trifle in vain; Says one, pray let us know,That we may find how youre inclined, Are you High Church, or Low ?John faid to That, Ill tell you What, To end Debates and Strife,All I can fay, this is the way 1 fteer my Courfe of Life: I neer to Bow, nor Bnrgefi go, To Steeple-Houfe nor Hall;The brisk Bar-Bell beft fuits my Zcal^ With, Gentlemen, d ye call?Now judge, am I Low Church, or Higb^ From Tavern ot the Steeple,Whofe merry Toll exalts the Soul, And makes us high-flown People. The Guatds came on, and lookd at JobtsWith Countenance moft pleafant; By Whifper round, they all fcon fouodjHe was no dangrous Pea&nt; U SONGS. So while John flood, the beft he coud, Expefting their Decifion,Pox ont! fays one, let him be gone, Hes of our own Religion. For the SONGS. 69 *the Midsummer the Author of the Fair when he was at Eton School. Waft me, fome foft and cooling Breeze, ToWinders fha--dykind Retreat, Where Sylvan Scenes, wide -fpread-ing Trees, Re—pel the • jjfcr l Dog-Stars raging Heat: Where tufted


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