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 So, therefore, to shew honest dealing,

ev'n after this trial is o'er,

Let him find good bail or's not failing,

I'll marry him yet on that score.

I hope now this ven'rable session,

will think on these premises well,

And not count me in a transgression,

for these naked truths that I tell.

I hope they'll take this resolution,

grant all expences to me,

And give me a clear absolution,

declaring me perfectly free.

I own I have spoken quite plainly,

that I might be well understood,

For they that speak darkly speak vainly,

and may ev'n say nothing as good.

Session, with all due decorum,

consider'd these premises well,

Concerning the matter before 'em,

how they these disorders might quell.

This custom shall now be detected,

that it may no farther proceed;

Since people are grown so distracted,

we'll make them hereafter take heed.