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The Foxhunt

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You gentlemen of high renown, come listen unto me That take delight in fox-hunting by every degree A story now I'll tell to you concerning of a fox All rise from hills and mountains high and over stony rocks Old Reynold being in his den and hearing of these hounds Which made him for to prick his ears and tread upon the ground Methinks me he is some Jubal hound pressing upon my life Before the greater me shall come and tread upon the ground We hunted full four hours or more, by farish e'er sixteen We hunted full four hours or more, and come but but with green Oh if you'll only spare my life, a promise unfulfilled I'll touch no more of your fair the foul bold lamb in yonder fold Old Reynold beat out out of breath and dreading of these hounds Thinking that he might lose his life before the Jubal hound Oh here's adieu to duck and geese likewise young lambs also They've got old Reynold by the bush and will not let him go