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The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902]
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The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888

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Line The Old Horse: Christmas Play from Notts. [1902] The Old Horse, Sheffield District, Yorkshire, 1888
1. by leave you gentlemen all your pardon i do crave  
2. for making bold to come to see what sport you ll have  
3. there s more in company they re following close behind  
4. they ve sent us on before admittance for to find  
5. these blades they are but young never acted here before  
6. they ll do the best they can and the best can do no more  
7. this is my poor old horse that has carried me many a mile his body that so swiftly has travelled many miles
8. over hedges over ditches over high barred gate and stile over hedges over ditches over five barred gates and stiles
9. but now he has grown old and his nature does decay but now that he s grown old and nature doth decay
10. he s forced to snap at the shortest grass that grows along the way he s forced to eat the coarsest grass that grows against the wall
11. poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse
12. his coat it was once of the linsey woolsey fine  
13. his mane it grew at length and his body it did shine  
14. his pretty little shoulders that were so plump and round  
15. they re both worn out and aged i m afraid he is not sound  
16. poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse
17. his keep it was once of the best of corn and hay his feeding it was once of the best of corn and hay
18. that ever grew in cornfields or in the meadows gay that grew down in yon fields or in the meadows gay
19. but now into the open fields he is obliged to go  
20. to stand all sorts of weather either rain or frost or snow  
21. poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse
22. his hide unto the tanner i will so freely give  
23. his body to the dogs i would rather him die than live  
24. so we ll hang him whip him strip him and a hunting let him go  
25. he s neither fit to ride upon or in the team to draw  
26. poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse poor old horse
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