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9 to seek for it is vain in Amsterdam 'tis common. yet Holland wants it still; 'Tis in every mountain, yet not in any hill; It never was in Italy. In Rome it still appears; It comes in every minute, yet not in twenty years; All Scotland cannot shew it, nor England, but men say, in Westminster and Cambridge, you see it every day; And tho' you do not think on it, 'tis never out of mind, And always in its proper place, indeed you may it find.

The Letter M.

Nancy with the white petticoat, and the red nose, The longer she stands, the shorter she grows.

a lighted candle.

Belly to belly, and hands at the back, Pull out a raw morsel, and stop a red gap.

a Child sucking a Woman.

As round as a cheese, and as black as a coal, A long neck and a pumping hole.

a Bottle

As I went to a feast I met with a beast, With ten heads, and ten tails, Forty feet, and fourscore nails a Sow with nine Pigs