The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
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the sword i forsook for the sake of the church:
he ventur'd the soul, and i risked the body,
'twas then i proved false to my sodger ddie.
full soon i grew siy sanctified sot,
the regiment at rge for a husband i got;
from the gilded spontoon to the fife i was ready,
i asked no more but a sodger ddie.
but the peace it reduc'd me to beg in despair,
till i met old boy in a ingham fair,
his rags regimental, they flutter'd so gaudy,
my heart it rejoic'd at a sodger ddie.
and now i have liv'd—i know not how long,
and still i join in a cu
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