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Houses and land she has left behind,
And all her slaves are close confin’d;
Unto her parents she bid adieu,
By this you see what love can do.
Now she has turn’d a Christian brave,
And married unto her own slave,
That was in chains and bondage too,
By this you see what love can do.
THE HAPPY BEGGARS.
Queen of the Beggars.
HOW blest are beggar-lasses,
who never toil for treasure!
Who know no care, but how to share,
each day successive pleasure.
Drink away, let’s be gay,
beggars still with bless abound,
Mirth and joy, ne’er can cloy,
while the sparkling glass goes round.
First Woman.
A fig for gaudy fashions,
no want of clothes oppresses;
We live at ease with rags and fleas,
we value not our dresses.
Drink away, &c.
Second Woman.
We scorn all Ladies washes,
