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

322 AN C I E N T SONGS
She poft-diluvian (lone unmans,
And Pyrrha's work unravels
And Hares Deucalion's hardy boya
Into their primitive pebbles.
Red nofes me to rubies turns^
And noddles into bricks.
But George made dragon laxative ;
And gave him a bloody flix.
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St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for. France::
Sing,. Horn'fait qui maly ptnfe.
By boar-fpear Meleager
Acquir'd a lalling name, 27a
And out of haunch of bailed fwineV
He hew'd eternal fame.
This beaft each hero's trouzers ript,
And rudely ihew'd his bare-breech,
Prickt but the wem, and out there came 275
» Heroic guts and garbadge.
Legs were fecur'd by iron bolts
No more, than peas by peafcods 1
Brafs helmets, with inclofed fculls,
Wou'd crackle in's mouth like chefnuts. zBm
Mis tawny hairs erecled were
By rage, that was refiftlefs ;
And wrath, inilead of cobler's wax?
Did ftiffen. his rifmg briftles.
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