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So now alike the fools, and wits,
Fops, fidlers, foreigners and cits,
All struck me by rotation.
Come learn of me ye patriot fair,
Nor make a single man your care,
But sigh for all the nation.

THE HAPPY MARRIAGE.

As I was a walking one morning so fair,
So Green was the fields, and cool was the air,
There did I discover
Pretty Nancy my lover,
And I for to woo her was pleas’d for to say,

O fairest of creatures that ever was seen,
You’re the pride of my heart, the flow’r of the green,
With garlands made of roses,
And sweet pretty posies,
What nature composes I’ll crown you my Queen.

To these words I spoke she answered and said,
O how can you flatter a poor harmless maid,
For your tongue it runs so nimble,
It makes my heart to tremble,
And I fear you disemble my poor heart to break.

Of all my sweethearts I have had nine or ten,
Yet never a one can I fancy of them,
But if I should believe you,
And you should deceive me,
And scornfully leave me, Oh! where am I then?

These words I speak is by the Powers above,
The rocks and the mountains shall sooner remove,
And the sea shall flame on fire,
If from my love I do retire,
And there’s nothing I desire, but innocent love.