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Thread #4260   Message #1622711
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter at work
08-Dec-05 - 09:44 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Reynardine: Info?
Subject: RE: Origins: Reynardine: Info?
The final stanza seems to have been adapted later for "The Boston Burglar." The way I remember it:

You lads who have your liberty, preserve it while you can,
Don't never go night-walking, boys, or shun the laws of man;
For if you do, you'll surely rue, and become a lad like me,
Serving out your twenty-one years in the penitentiary.