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WHAT will ye, my poor orphans, do When I must leave the world and you ? Who'll give ye then a sheltering shed, Or credit ye when I am dead ? Who'll let ye by their fire sit, Although ye have a stock of wit Already coin'd to pay for it ? I cannot tell, unless there be Some race of old humanity Left, of the large heart and long hand, Alive, as noble Westmorland, Or gallant Newark, which brave two May fost'ring fathers be to you. If not, expect to be no less Ill us'd, than babes left fatherless.
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