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OU gallant young creatures delighting in sport. I’d have you to linen a while to this joke, It is of a young Lady both gallant and fair, A noble lords daughter whole name I’ll forbear.

She must have a frolic one night as, ’tis said, There's nothing would serve her but the masquerade, She gees to her mother, and to her the cry’d, A masqueradcmasquerade [sic] dress I beg you’ll provide.

That I may go fee the fine pastime that’s there, I will have the dress of a shepherdess fair, The gallant young lady’s go there as it is said, So I will go dress and to the masquerade.

Dear mother according to what I’ve heard talk, I'm sure masquerading is very good sport, Young lords in their coaches come rattling there, The king, and the prince, and the princes so fair.

Dear mother there must be rich pastime, she said, This night I’m resolved for the masquerade: Miss called her chair, and away she did go, With her nimble footman to follow her too.

She hir’d the dress of a shepherdess fair, And entered the room where the quality ware The footman, he said, I have guineas l know. So I will be one of the quality too.

He dress’d like a shepherd,and when he came there, He led up a dance with his shepherdess fair, But little she thought it was her man John, Who danc’d with her there and so well did perform.

But took him to be some great Lord of renown. When dancing was o'er, they together sat down, He su’d her with him to the tavern to go, Both in their disguise, that none might them know.