Highlanders and wild Irish can agree My Pilgrim should familiar with them be. ’Tis in New England under such advance, Receives there so much loving countenance, As to be trimm’d, new cloth’d, and deck’d with gems That it may show its features and its limbs, Yet more; so comely doth my Pilgrim walk, That of him thousands daily sing and talk. 565
If you draw nearer home, it will appear, My Pilgrim knows no ground of shame or fear; City and country will him entertain With, Welcome Pilgrim; yea, they can’t refrain From smiling, if my Pilgrim be but by, Or shows his head in any company.
Brave gallants do my Pilgrim hug and love, Esteem it much, yea, value it above Things of a greater bulk: yea, with delight, Say, My lark’s leg is better than a kite.