THE Enter'd 'PRENTICES SONG. By our late BROTHER Mr. MATTHEW BIRKHEAD, deceas'd. To be sung when all grave Bufinefs is over, and with the I. MASTER's Leave. They cannot tell What, Then join Hand in Hand, T'each other firm stand, Why fo many GREAT MEN of the Nation Let's be merry, and put a bright Face on : Should Aprons put on, To make themselves one With a Free and an Accepted MASON. What Mortal can boaft So NOBLE A TOAST, As a Free and an Accepted MASON? ( 85 ) One Verfe of the Third Part of the Mafter's Song, with the Chorus, fet to Mufic, by a Brother. T HUS mighty Eaftern Kings, and fome Of Abram's -54 Race, and Monarchs good, Of Egypt, Syria, Greece, and Rome, True Architecture under-ftood. No wonder then if Mafons join To b. celebrate those Mafon-Kings, With folemn Note and flow--ing Wine, Whilft ev'ry Brother jointly fings. M ( 87 ) The laft Verfe of the Wardens Song, with the Chorus, fet to Mufic, by a Brother. Rom henceforth e-ver fing The Craftsman and the King, With Poetry and Mu-fick fweet Refound their Har-mo-ny Refound their Har-mo-ny compleat; And with Geo-me-try in skil-ful Hand, Due Homage Pay, Without De-lay, Little Slower Fafter To Wharton's no-ble Duke our Ma-fer Grund: He rules the ( 88 ) Free-born Sons of Art, By Love and Friendfhip, by Love and Friendship, by Love and Friendship, Hand and Heart. CHORUS. Who can re--hearfe the Praife, In foft Po-e-tick Lays, Or Who can re--hearse the Praife, In foft Po-e-tick Lays, Or fo-lid Profe, of Mafons true, Whofe Art tranfcends the common View? fo-lid Profe, of Mafons true, Whofe Art tranfcends the common View? |