London Pub April 30: 1791 by J.W. Forts. No 3 Piccadilly.

BACHELORS' HALL:

Written and composed by Mr. DIBDIN,
FOR

His ENTERTAINMENT called The ODDITIES.

TO Bachelors' hall we good fellows invite,
To partake of the chace that makes up our delight;
We have fpirits like fire, and of health such a flock
That our Pulfe ftrikes the fecons as true as a clock;
Did you fee us, you'd fwear, as we mount with a grace,
That Diana had dubb'd fomé new gods of the chace.

CHORUS.

Hark away! hark away!
All nature looks gay,
And Aurora with fmosles ufers in the bright day.

Dick Thickfet came mounted upon a fine black,
A better fleet gelding ne'er hunter did back ;
Tom Trig rode a bay, full of mettle and bone,
And gaily Bob Buxom rode proud on a roan ;
But the horfe of all horfes that rivall'd the day,
Was the 'Squire's Neck-or-nothing, and that was a grey.

CHORUS.

Hark away! hark away!
While our fpirits are gay,
Let us drink to the joys of the next coming day.

Then for hounds there was Nimble, fo well that climbs rocks,
And Cocknofe, a good one at feenting a fox,
Little Plunge, like a mole who will ferret and fearch,
And beetle-brow'd Hawk's-eye, fo dead at a lurch;
Yéung Sly-looks, that feents the ftrong breeze from the fouth,
And muſical Echowell, with his deep mouth.

Hark away, &c.

Our horfes thus all of the very beſt blood,
'Tis not likely you'll eafily find ſuch a fluid;
And for hounds our opinions with thoufands we'll back,
That all England throughout can't produce ſuch a pack :
Thus having deſcrib'd you dogs, horſes, and crew,
Away we fet off, for the fox is in view.

Hark away, &c.

Sly reynard's brought home, while the horns found a call,
And now you're all welcome to Bachelors'-hall;
The favory firloin grateful fmoaks on the board,
And Bacchus pours wine from his favourite hoard;
Come on, then, do honour to this jovial place,
And enjoy the fweet pleafures that fpring from the chace.

Hark away, &c.

Juſt published, Price 6d. plain, and 1s. coloured, the Patient Parfon forgetting his Text, or the Hogs in the Ale-
Cellar; Poll and my Partner Joe; Let us all be unhappy together; the Greenwich Pensioner; Mrs. THRALE'S
Three Warnings; and many other ſeefemed Songs and Pieces, by DIBDIN and others.

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