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All travellers at first incline / Where'er they see the fairest sign; / And if they find the chambers neat, / And like the liquor and the meat, / Will call again and recommend / The Angel Inn to every friend / What though the painting grows decayed, / The house will never lose its trade: /
Nay, though the treach'rous tapster Thomas / Hangs a new angel two doors from us, / As fine as daubers' hands can make it, / In hopes that strangers may mistake it, / We think it both a shame and sin, / To quit the true old Angel Inn.