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But ne'er a groat's in pouch of mine—
Carle, now the King's come!

"Deil care- for that I'se never start,
We'll welcome him with Highland heart;
Whate'er we have he's get a part—

Carle, now the King's come!

"I'll show him mason-work this day-
Nane of your bricks of Babel clay,
But towers shall stand till Time's away-
Carle, now the King's come!

"I'll show him wit, I'll show him lair,
And gallant lads and lasses fair,

And what wad kind heart wish for mair?-
Carle, now the King's come!

"Step out, Sir John,' of projects rife,
Come win the thanks of an auld wife,
And bring him health and length of life-
Carle, now the King's come!"

1[The Right honourable Sir John Sinclair of Ulster, Bart., author of "The Code of Health and Longevity," &c. &c.,—the well-known patron and projector of national and patriotic plans and improvements innumerable during a lifetime of now about fourscore years. 1833.]

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