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The Egyptian Wedding. SINCE? fhokeepers now are the flite, | We li iaugh at proud Buona's inter ' He promifed to vifit our ifle.(tion) But frighten’d to leave his convention.

For Bonaparte’s coming they fay With plenty of gun boats and barges, To learn us a foreign flrathfpey. And make plunder to pay all his charges

But let him come o’er if he dare, On our croaft let him try for to moor them Me muft firft on the fea dance Jack-tar. And on the fhore with us dance fulligorum

Ye Corfican come if you will, Bring all your convention together, We’ll learn him an auld highland reel, To the tune of the Braes of Balquhiden.

O Buona come o‘er wi your boats Ye dinna mind lives or expences. Since in Egypt ye danc‘d wi' the Scots, Till a few of you there loft your fenfes,

Your Invincibles open'd the ball, A curious reel if you'd feen it, For you danc'd the fafeft of all, For in France‘you was walking a minuet.

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