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Determined their landlord’s fine words to make good, They hid pikes in his haggard, cut staves in his wood; And attack’d the king’s troops—the assertion to clinch, That no town is so _loyal_ as Ballynahinch.
Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political and Satirical Poems, of the Rt. Hons. G. Canning, John Hookham Frere, W. Pitt, the Marquis Wellesley, G. Ellis, W. Gifford, the Earl of Carlisle, and Others.
Determined their landlord’s fine words to make good, They hid pikes in his haggard, cut staves in his wood; And attack’d the king’s troops—the assertion to clinch, That no town is so _loyal_ as Ballynahinch.