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I'm next to Venus, which they say is quite a                         libel on her, No matter if may friends still smile, their plaudits ne er denying, To yield them more amusement, why I'll still continue Pry-ing. Pry, Pry, Pry. Tho' every body laughs when they behold Paul Pry.

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''Oh! no, I never name my Wife.''

AIR.--Oh! no they never mention her.

OH! no, I never name my wife But let her lie at rest; Altho' she used to pull my nose, Now I am truly blest.

Each morn for cash she'd worry me, To purchase heavy-wet: And how she staggerd home at eve I never shall forget.

I strove to find in change of scene, A tranquil hour or two, But, if, alas! she found me out, She'd thump me black and blue.

'Tis true I now appear no more With eyes as black as jet, But how the powker she could yield, I never can forget,