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THE JOVIAL WIDOWER, TUNE—MAGGY LAUDER, I Married with a fcolding Wife, the fourteenth of November, She made me weary of life, by one unruly member, I long did bear the heavy yoke, and many griefs attended. But to my comfort be it fpoke, now, now her life is ended.

We liv’d full one and twenty years, as man and wife together, At length from me her courfe fhe fteer’d, and went I know not whether. Would I could guefs, I do profefs, I fpeak and do not ftatter. Of all the women in the world, I never would come at her.

Her body is beftowed well, a handfome grave doth hide her! But fure her foul is not in hell, the de’il would not abide her, I rather think fhe is aloft, and imitating thunder. For why ; methinks I hear her voice, rending the clouds afunder.

GLASGOW Printed by J. and M. Robertfon, Saltmarket, 1803