| And no damn loutll come courting thee or by the mother of the Holy | 1 |
|     Ghost there'll be murder! | 2 |
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| O, come all ye sweet nymphs of Dingle beach to cheer Brinabride | 4 |
|     queen from Sybil surfriding | 5 |
| In her curragh of shells of daughter of pearl and her silverymonnblue | 6 |
|     mantle round her. | 7 |
| Crown of the waters, brine on her brow, she'll dance them a jig and | 8 |
|     jilt them fairly. | 9 |
| Yerra, why would she bide with Sig Sloomysides or the grogram grey | 10 |
|     barnacle gander? | 11 |
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| You won't need be lonesome, Lizzy my love, when your beau gets his | 13 |
|     glut of cold meat and hot soldiering | 14 |
| Nor wake in winter, window machree, but snore sung in my old | 15 |
|     Balbriggan surtout. | 16 |
| Wisha, won't you agree now to take me from the middle, say, of | 17 |
|     next week on, for the balance of my days, for nothing (what?) | 18 |
|     as your own nursetender? | 19 |
A power of highsteppers died game right enough but who, acushla, | 20 |
|     'll beg coppers for you? | 21 |
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| I tossed that one long before anyone. | 23 |
| It was of a wet good Friday too she was ironing and, as I'm given | 24 |
|     now to understand, she was always mad gone on me. | 25 |
| Grand goosegreasing we had entirely with an allnight eiderdown bed | 26 |
|     picnic to follow. | 27 |
| By the cross of Cong, says she, rising up Saturday in the twilight | 28 |
|     from under me, Mick, Nick the Maggot or whatever your name | 29 |
|     is, you're the mose likable lad that's come my ways yet from the | 30 |
|     barony of Bohermore. | 31 |
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| Mattheehew, Markeehew, Lukeehew, Johnheehewheehew! | 33 |
| Haw! | 34 |
| And still a light moves long the river. And stiller the mermen | 35 |
|     ply their keg. | 36 |
| Its pith is full. The way is free. Their lot is cast. | 37 |
| So, to john for a john, johnajeams, led it be! | 38 |