Song: "An Old Hare Hoar"

The word "hoar" means old, and rotten. This song seems to concern a rabbit which is "hoar," or old and rotten; or maybe it is a hare which is old and rotten; or maybe it is a prostitute; or maybe it is a hairy, old rabbit, or maybe it is a hairy, old, uh, well you get the idea. For the benefit of those who do not have a text handy, the song is reprinted in its entirety below:

"An old hare hoar, And an old hare hoar,

Is very good meat in Lent;

But a hare that is hoar, Is too much for a score

When it hoars ere it be spent." (Lines 131-136).

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