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It is relevant that Thatcher is making this remark to Carpenter the poacher, because it is a line from the chorus of an English folk song called ‘The Lincolnshire Poacher’:

When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire

Full well I served my master for more than seven year’

’Til I took up to poaching, as you shall quickly hear

Oh ’tis my delight on a shining night

In the season of the year!

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