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There I have wept till I could weep no more,

And curft mine eyes, when they have wept their store,

Then, like the clouds, that rob the azure main,

I've drain'd the flood to weep it back again.

Pity my pains,

Ye gentle fwains!

Cover me with ice and fnow,

I fcorch, I burn, I flame, I glow!

Furies, tear me,

Quickly bear me

To the difmal fhades below!

Where yelling, and howling.

And grumbling, and growling
Strike the ear with horrid woe.

Hiffing fnakes,

Fiery lakes

Would be a pleafure, and a cure:

Not all the hells,

Where Pluto dwells,

Can give fuch pain as I endure.

To fome peaceful plain convey me,
On a moffey carpet lay me,
Fan me with ambrofial breeze,
Let me die, and fo have ease!

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XXIV.

THE FRANTIC LADY,

MAD SONG THE SIXTH.

This, as well as Num. XXII, was originally fung in one

of D'URFEY'S comedies of Don Quixote.

A circumstance

which was not known when p. 343 was printed off.

Burn, my brain confumes to af hes!

Each eye-ball too like lightning flashes! Within my breast there glows a folid fire, Which in a thousand ages can't expire!

Blow, blow, the winds' great ruler!
Bring the Po, and the Ganges hither,
'Tis fultry weather,

Pour them all on my foul,

It will hifs like a coal,

But be never the cooler.

'Twas pride hot as hell,

That first made me rebell,

From love's awfull throne a curft angel I fell;

And mourn now my fate,

Which myself did create:

Fool, fool, that confider'd not when I was well!

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Bring me dagger, poison, fire!

Since fcorn is turn'd into defire,

All hell feels not the rage, which I, poor I endure.

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XXV.

LILLI BURLER O.

The following rhymes, flight and infignificant as they may now Seem, had once a more powerful effect than either the Philipics of demofthenes, or Cicero; and contributed not a little towards the great revolution in 1688. Let us hear a contemporary writer,

“A foolish ballad was made at that time, treating the "papists, and chiefly the Irish, in a very ridiculous manner, "which had a burden faid to be Irish words, Lero, lero, "lillyburlero, that made an impression on the [king's] army "that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The and at last the people both in city and coun

"whole army,
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"So flight a thing so great an effect. „

Burnet.

It was written on occafion of the king's nominating to the lieutenancy of Ireland in 1686, general Talbot, newly created earl of Tirconel, a furious papist, bad recommended himself to his biggotted master by his arbitrary treatment of the proteftants in the preceding year, when only lieutenant general; and whose subsequent conduct fully justified his expectations and their fears. The violencies of his administration may be seen in any of the histories of those times: particularly in bishop King's "State of the protestants in Ire. "land.,, 1691, 4to.

LILLIBURLERO is faid to have been the watch-word used among the Irish papifts in their massacre of the protestants in 1641.

HO!

Ho

TO! broder Teague, doft hear de decree?
Lilli burlero bullen a-la.

Dat we shall have a new deputie,

Lilli burlero bullen a-la.

Lero lero, lilli burlero, lero lero, bullen a-la,
Lero lero, lilli burlero, lero lero, bullen a-la.

Ho! by fhaint Tyburn, it is de Talbote:

Lilli, &c.

And he will cut all de English troate.
Lilli, &c.

Dough by my fhoul de English do praat,
Lilli, &c.

De law's on dare fide, and Creifh knows what.
Lilli, &c.

But if difpence do come from de pope,

Lilli, &c.

We'll hang magna Charta, and dem in a rope.

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Lilli, &c.

Dare was an old prophefy found in a bog,

Lilli, &c.

"Ireland fhall be rul'd by an afs, and a dog.,,

Lilli, &c.

And now dis prophesy is come to pass,

Lilli, &c.

For Talbot's de dog, and JA**s is de ass.

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Lilli. &c.

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XXVI.

THE BRAES OF YARROW,

IN IMITATION OF THE ANCIENT SCOTS MANNER,

was written by William Hamilton of Bangour, efq; who died March 25, 1754. aged 50. It is printed from an elegant edition of his Poems published at Edinburgh, 1760.

12mo.

A. BUSK

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