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One night as I lay slumbering on my bed,

Having nought with me but my maiden head,

I dream'd a young man fell in love with me,

A pretty lad he was, and he pleased me.

He woo'd, he fu'd, at last he sped,

Married me thought we were, and both in bed,

He rous'd, turn'd, and got up, with that I

squeak'd,

Blush'd and cry,d Oh! and so awak'd

It would have vex'd a saint when flesh did burn,

To be so near, yet miss'd so good a turn:

O cruel dream? why did you thus deceive me?

To shew me heaven, and then in hell to leave

me?

The Earl being in company with King

Charles II the Dukes of York, Monmouth,

Lauderdale, and Dr Fraser his Majesty ordered

Rochester to make some verses: So his

Lordship thus addressed himself:

Here's Monmouth the witty,

There's Lauderdale the pretty,

And Fraser the learned Physician;

And above all the rest:

There's a Duke for a jest.

And your Majesty's a known politician.

All which his Lordship spoke by contrarities,

for Monmouth was never reckoned any thing

of a wit. Lauderdale was very homely, Fraser