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PGCJ.764.049
29 Dec 1764:42 (115)
From the Universal Spectator.
THE CONTENTED CLOWN.
Young Hodge, a poor but a contented swain,
Rented a homely cottage on a plain:
Homely, you'd say, if you the cottage saw,
The walls were rear'd of mud, and thatch'd with straw:
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At work he whistles; when his work is done,
No more is tir'd than when he first begun:
Homeward he hies, and tunes a merry song,
His lov'd tho' dirty squawling tribe along:
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The squire once caught him felling down an oak,
And tho' he toiled, still sung 'twixt every stroke:
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