An' cam' off wi' a Yorkshireman's triumph at last;

For thof 'twixt deead horses there's not mitch ta choose,

Yet Tommy war richer by t' hide an' fower shooes.[172]


BILL BROWN, THE POACHER.

IN seventeen hundred and sixty-nine

As plainly doth appear then,

A bloody scene was felt most keen

Till death it did draw near then;