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Old Song
"This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.
[Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;
Quand on l'attaque il se defend.]"
Author: Old Song
About: Animals
"Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue coat
All buttoned down before."
Author: Old Song
About: Apparel
"When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years."
Author: Old Song
About: Apparel
"I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,
Nor be half so happy as I.
. . . .
Let the back and side go bare."
Author: Old Song
About: Beggary
"The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,
But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,
With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale."
Author: Old Song
About: Eating
"Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all
evils.
[Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium
malorum.]"
Author: Old Song
About: Eating
"Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away."
Author: Old Song
About: Mountains
"When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on,
He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
"With the skinny side out, and the wooly side in,
'Twill be warm and convanient," said Bryan O'Lynn."
Author: Old Song
About: Nonsense
"There's a skin without and a skin within,
A covering skin and a lining skin,
But the skin within is the skin without
Doubled and carried complete throughout."
Author: Old Song
About: Nonsense
"Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!"
Author: Old Song
About: Proverbs
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