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Cromwell by Alfred B. Richards
page 54 of 186 (29%)
playing at dice, &c. Their arms are piled in a corner._

_1st Cav._ [_Sings_]

Noll's red nose,
In a bumper here goes
To Beelzebub his own master;
With the pikes at his flank
Of our foremost rank,
And the devil to find him plaster,
Fairfax and Harrison,
On them our malison.
But drink and sing
A health to the KING--
Gentlemen! steady,
Fill, now be ready.

_All._ He _shall_ have his own again!

[_Shouting and huzzaing._]

_A Cav._ A _toast_! gentlemen. "Noll's nose a-fire,
and the devil's youngest daughter to baste it with
aqua-vitae!"

_All._ Ha! ha!

_A Cav._ Would that Goring's moonrakers might
come across the snuffling organ and cut it off. We
would have it by way of _pavillon_. Thou, Frank
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