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 That unto him her ſecrets

with joy ſhe did unfold;

All for the joke's ſake,

he told the whole town,

That the corporal's recruit

to a Woman had grown.

She had ſlept with the corporal

a fortnight or more,

But by him ſhe was never

diſcovered before;

Alas! alas! he cried aloud,

ſhe did me trepan,

I've inlifted a young Lady

I though was a man.

The ſoldiers they daily

on him do make fun,

They always are a jeering him,

for what he has done!

He was ſo much aſhamed,

he begged leave to go away

Into another reg'ment,

in his own he could not ſtay,

The colonel with laughter

gave him his diſcharge,

Deſiring that theſe verſes might

be printed at large;

Saying, mind my brave ſoldiers