EBBA 36189
Chetham's Library - Halliwell-Phillipps
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New Market Horse Race
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To Horse brave boys of New Market, to Horse,
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You'l lose the match by longer delaying;
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the Gelding just now was led over the Course,
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I think the Devil's in you for staying:
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Run & endeavour all, to bubble the sporters;
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Bets may recover all, lost at the Groom-Porters;
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Follow, follow, follow, follow, come down to the ditch
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Sr. take the odds & then you'l be rich Sr.
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I'll have the brown Bay, if blue Bonnet ride,
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And hold a Thousand Pounds of his side Sr.
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Dragon would scow'r it, but Dragon grows old,
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He can't hold out, Age hinders his speed Sr.
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Now they come on, see the Horse leads the way still,
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Three lengths before at the turning the Lands Sr.
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Five Hundred Pounds upon the brown Bay still?
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Pox on the De'el! I fear we have lost Sr.
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Blue Bonnet has run it the wrong side the Post,
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Ods! zounds! was ere such Damnable Fortune.
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Flute.
Corrected, & Ingrav'd by T. Grofs, it being impossible to sing the Words to the Notes in the Puncht ones.
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