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HEADLONG HALL.
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Squire Headlong.

No civil war.—Temperance, in the name of Bacchus. A glee! a glee! Music has charms to bend the knotted oak. Sir Patrick, you'll join?

Sir Patrick O'Prism.

Troth, with all my heart: for, by my soul, I'm bothered completely.

Squire Headlong.

Agreed, then: you, and I, and Chromatic. Bumpers!—bumpers! Come, strike up.

Squire Headlong, Mr. Chromatic, and Sir Patrick O'Prism, each holding a bumper, immediately vociferated the following

GLEEA heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it! So fill me a bumper, a bumper of claret! Let the bottle pass freely, don't shirk it nor spare it, For a heeltap! a heeltap! I never could bear it!
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