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WILLIAM TELL.

Hereditary bondsmen! Don’t you know that,
Who would be free, themselves must strike the-——
Blow that!
Try something new.
Oh! certainly. Here goes!
The haughty Gesler’s domineering nose
I'll soon disjoint; remove our country’s curse,
Or die upon the floor of.
(Disgusted.) Worse and worse.

 

Then here ’s a proposition—that a rent
Shall be collected—something large per cent.
On what the people really have n’t got.

Ah! now, I own, you seem to know what ’s what.

I like the plan extremely, I confess.
I'll be collector with great willingness.
But when we’ve got it, how should it be spent ?
As Mrs. Glass would say, first catch your rent.
We four, the spending of it, will enforce.
The resolution ’s carried then ?
Of course.
Then let’s dissolve.

‘(Lachrymously.) A motion to my mind,

For to the melting mood I feel inclined.
Then we break up.