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( 16 ) You know, alas! I cannot ſleep

without you by my ſide.

Cries he, Kind wife do not repine,

why ſhould you ſigh and grieve?

I go out to a friend of mine,

ſome money to receive.

This ſaid with woman’s fond deceit,

ſhe ſtraight away ceas’d to mourn,

And gave him twenty kiſſes ſweet,

wiſhing his ſafe return.

So ſoon as he was out of ſight,

ſhe for the Quaker ſent,

And order’d him to come at night,

that to their heart’s content

They may be merry, ſport, and play,

as her huſband was from home.

The Quaker ſaid, By Yea and Nay,

he would not fail to come,

A ſucking pig and capon too,

for him ſhe did prepare;

For why, alas! full well ſhe knew

he lov’d ſuch dainty fare.

Now juſt about the cloſe of day

they did to ſupper fall;

Now Jack was there as well as they,

and walk’d about the hall;

And did her fond behaviour note,

ſhe on her friend did lean,

Jack having his enchanting coat,

was not for to be ſeen.