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 [ 4 ] A poor cuckold's cap, I would borrow indeed, A thing of ſmall value, but yet could not ſpeed; But as I'm a woman, adzooks, cries young Joan, Before it be long, I'll have one of my own. A SUMMER PIECE. WHEN the treesall their beautiful verdure renew, and the meadows look charmingly gay, When ſmiling Creation looks blooming to view, replete with the beauties of May. When the light-hearted ſhepherd chants muſical as he pipes co his flocks on the hill ; (ſtrains, And the lamb kins delighted, ſkip blyth o'erthe plain, or friſk by the murinuring rill. When the cows round the country a gadding repair or beneath the cool ſhade ſhun the heat ; When the crimſon-cheek'd milk-maid does kindly for her ſweetheart a ſyllabub treat. (prepare When the country girls wantonly ſport in the deep, ſo cautious, that all muſt be buſh, Yet art the fly ruſtic procures a full peep, from the ſide of a hillock or buſh. At eve when the lads and the laſſes domeet, in a circle to dance on the green; What a native ſimplicity void of deceit, and modeſty ſtampt on their mein ; While the birds ſeem inspir'd by the ſmiling forenc in mufical melody vie ; (main And the bares mich the corn fields they ſafely ra or fecare is the green meadows Me.