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Cambrick! With grateful blessings would I pay The pleasure given me in sweet employ. Long may’st thou serve my friend without decay, And have no tears to wipe but tears of joy.

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On the same Occasion, but not sent.

Cambrick! thou'st been to me a good, And I would bless thee if I could. Go, serve thy mistress with delight, Be small in compass, soft and white; Enjoy thy fortune, honour'd much To bear her name and feel her touch; And that thy worth may last for years, Slight be her colds, and few her tears.