Popular Music Of The Olden Time Vol 2

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	THE COMMONWEALTH.		.448
	goblin more" is here changed to " O'er many a gobling crew" because a rhyme is required to " too."                                                         ... It was no doubt this ballad which suggested to Southey his Devil's Walk.
	■ Why think you that he laugh'd ? Forsooth he came from court; And there, amongst the gallants, Had spied such pretty sport: There was such cunning juggling, And ladies grown so proud— Huggle, duggle, &c. With that into the City Away the devil went, To view the merchants' dealings It was his full intent; And there, along the hrave Exchange, He crept into the crowd— Huggle, duggle, &c. He went into the City, To see all there was well; Their scales were false, their weights were Their conscience fit for hell;         [light,	And ' bad men' chosen Magistrates, And Puritans allow'd— Huggle, duggle, &c. With that into the country Away the devil goeth, For there is all plain dealing, And that the devil knoweth : But the rich man reaps the gains, For which the poor man plough'd-Huggle, duggle, &c. With that the devil in haste, Took post away to hell, And told his fellow furies That all on earth was well; That falsehood there did flourish, Plain-dealing was in a cloud— Huggle, duggle, ha, ha, ha, The devils laugh'd aloud.