Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

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ANCIENT SONGS
Caftor a horfeman, Pollux tho* ±0$
A boxer was, I will :
The one was fam'd for iron heel ;
Th' other for leaden fill.
Pollux to ihew he was a god,
When he was in a paffion, 210
With fill made nofes fall down flat*
By way of adoration :
This fill, as fure as French difeafe,
Demolifh'd nofes' ridges :
He like a certain lord * was fam'd 1 1
For breaking down of bridges.
Caflor the flame of fiery ileed,
With well-fpur'd boot took down ;
As men, with leathern buckets, do
Quench fire in country town. 220
His famous horfe, that liv'd on oats,
Is fung on oaten quill
By bards' immortal provender
The nag furviveth full.
This fnelly brood on none but knaves 225
Employ'd their brifk artillery :
Flew naturally at rogues, as eggs
At Dan De Foe in pillory.
Much fvveat they fpent in furious fight,
Much blood they did efFund : 230
Their whites they vented thro' the pore ;
Their yolks thro' gaping wound :
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Then
* Lord Lovelace broke dotvn the bridges about- Oxford) at the be-
ginning of the Revolution*
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