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   wound.
   Yes here comes I a doctor pure, and good,
   And with my broad sword I'll staunch his blood.
   If you want to save this young mans life,
   Fifty gineas I must have sire.
   Doctor what can you cure?
   I can cure the plague within, the plague without the pollsy, wollsy, and the gout.
   Fetch me an old woman of four score, and ten,
   With the knuckle bone of her big toe out,
   And I'll put it in again.
   Aloft, aloft where have I been,
   Many of those bloody wars that I have seen,
   I have been huft, huft unto the sky,
   And my wounds, and scars,
   I've been forced to die,
   But of all those trifles it matters not a pin,
   For I am brass without, and steel within,
   If you don't believe what I say,
   Enter in Oliver Cromwell, and he'll clear the way.
   Here comes I Oliver Cromwell as you may suppose. I have conquered many nations with my large, and coppar nose,
   I have made the Fench to tremble,

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   1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
         1. Christmas (~455)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Bhearáin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cuillenstown, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mr Patrick Lear

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cuillenstown, Co. Louth