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Song free and accepted Mason
I come let us prepare that brother that are
assembled on merry occasion
to drink laugh or sink be he a beggar or a King
here's the health of a free and an accepted Mason

II the world is in pair or secret to gain
Let them wonder and game on
they never can divine the words or the sign
of a free and an accepted Mason

III Tis this and tis that they cannot tell what
nor why the great men of the nation
should aprons put on and make themselves one
with free and an accepted mason

IV Great Kings Dukes and Lords
Have laid bye their swords
to put out misery their grace on
and there never ashamed Where themslves named
with a free and an accepted mason

Got from Monsieur on board Sh S Claudia

Song free and accepted Mason
I come let us prepare that brother that are
assembled on merry occasion
to drink laugh or sink be he a beggar or a King
here's the health of a free and an accepted Mason

II the world is in pair or secret to gain
Let them wonder and game on
they never can divine the words or the sign
of a free and an accepted Mason

III Tis this and tis that they cannot tell what
nor why the great men of the nation
should aprons put on and make themselves one
with free and an accepted mason

IV Great Kings Dukes and Lords
Have laid bye their swords
to put out misery their grace on
and there never ashamed Where themslves named
with a free and an accepted mason

Got from Monsieur on board Sh S Claudia

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