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15 All being ended, without more delay, We're laid aside unto another day.

Jack Bow

I am no fighter, yet I dare adventure, On the stoutest that does my castle enter, And when have them in my power got, My weapon he shall feel both cold and hot, He shall be for a time in such a case, That he'll not dare to look me in the face; My sharpest weapons to a place 'll put, It would spoil his drinking if I should it cut, But he shall see that I ll be much more kind, And him release according to his mind,

A B ber.

I am in general use, in much request, In ev'ry place, east, south and west, With ma some do much good and are respected, Others much ill just as they stand affected, Many are greiv'd they have not me obtain d, Others are careless, when they have, The one does me command, the other is my slave. But at the last my master aves m so, And oft leaves me to him he does not know. is Money which all people love and some misuse, but all leave it by them at last.

I am small, yes of metal stiff and right, And please my mistress day an night, But if I chance to hurt her tender skin, Whene'er against her will enter in Though she be angry she'll not one forsake, Because she knew that it was a mistake, An useful servant she knows I am to her,