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The People, some have told us,
Have quite a voice divine:
While other's come and scold us,
And say we're a herd of swine;
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.
With some the present rage is,
To pull down King and Peer:
While some will raise no wages,
Tho' bread is ever so dear.
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

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Some do so push the War Sir,
I'm sure it ne'er would cease;
While others all fighting abhor Sir,
Till they're ready to fight for peace.
And thus they part asunder,

As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

In church too I declare Sir,
Where most we should be mild,
It makes a Christian stare Sir,
To see how we run wild.

For

For here (tho' I would mind sir
True zeal be not repress'd),
I'm sure we often find Sir,

That the middle way's the best.

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Thus some so boast of Reason,
That Faith is quite decry'd;
While others commit High Treason,
Through laying all reason aside.
And thus they part asunder,

As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

Then one disdains all Charity,
And draws his Creed so tight!
While some, without disparity,
Say every Creed is right.
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
say they both do blunder,

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For the middle way's the best.

Some urge Predestination,

Till they make me quite sit still;
Some, hot with indignation,
Are all for mere Free-will.
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

Then

Then one so moral solely,
Religion's out of view;
And one is all so holy,
He can't be moral too.
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

Some get so warm and zealous,
Each Fancy seems," a Call,"
And some so stiff and jealous,
They shew no zeal at all.
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

Some think they see futurity,
Tuin Prophets and foretell!
Some groping in obscurity,

Forsee not heaven and hell.
And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

Some soar after spirituality,
With mild unmeaning flight;
Some rest in mere morality,
And know no Christian light.

And

And thus they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder

For the middle way's the best.

One thinks our faith a Bubble,
Doubts all but what he sees;
And one, to save all trouble,
Believes just what you please.
And so they part asunder,
As far as East and West:
I say they both do blunder,
For the middle way's the best.

And thus, by soothing Rhymes sir,
For fear the truth should grate,
I've published all our Crimes sir,
In Church as well as State:
So now, from this December,
I trust the Land will rest;
And Britains' sons remember,
That the middle way's the best.

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THE

HACKNEY COACHMAN;

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THE WAY TO GET A GOOD FARE.

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To the tune of I wish I was a Fisherman,' &c.

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AM a bold coachman and drive a good Hack, With a coat of five capes that quite covers my back;

And my wife keeps a sausage-shop not many miles
From the narrowest alley in all Broad St. Giles.

Tho' poor, we are honest, and very content,
We
pay as we go for meat, drink, and for rent;
To work all the week I am able and willing,"
I never get drunk, and I waste not a shilling.

What tho' at a tavern my gentleman tarries,
Why the coachman grows richer than he whom he
carries;

And I'd rather (said I) since it saves me from sin, Be the Driver without than the Toper within.

For the dram-shop I hate, and the dram-drinking friend,

Yet I'm not quite so good but I wish I may mend;
I repent of my sins, since we are all deprav'd,
For a coachman, I hold, has a soul to be sav'd.

When a riotous multitude fills up a street,

And the greater part know not, boys, wherefore they meet;

If I see there is mischief I never go there,

Let others get tipsy, so I get my fare.

Now

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