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That same little Cherub that sits up aloft, will look out-a good birth for Poor Jack

IF I SHOULD GET LAUGHING AT THAT

In the case of my childhood I ſported and played among the young ff around, I was fond then of laughing, my grandmother ſaid, none merrier ever was found: fill up the moments with joy and delight, I ſcarcely knew what to be at; For whatever was pleaſing that came to my fight, O I could not help laughing at that.

Still the humour prevails, tho' maturer I'm grown I'm happy to ſmile time away, And the frolicks of fancy I I all my own, and I pleaſantly ſpin out the day; Let the dull of the eplenstic cenſure or chida, at my innocent freedom and chat, O d tire to hear their nonſenſical pride, for I cannot help laughing at that.

Young Colin declares for a huſband I'm fit ſo he courts me from morning to night, He talkes of the Parſon, the Church, and the Ring, in praiſe toe of conjugal chat; On the charms of my parſon diſplays all his wit' and own that it gives me delight, O this wedlock muſt ſure be an excellent thing, but I muſt not get laughing at that,

At length to his wiſhes were I to comply, as at length I ſeem to incline. But if on his promiſes may rely, not to check the good humour of thine;