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[ 4 ] THE ROVER REFORMED.

ONU evening I walk in the meadows ſo gay, I heard faireſt Kitty lamenting one ſay, My Billy's gone aud left me to another he's four, And left me to wander in the groves all alone.

O how could you leave me, who vow'd to be true, At Hynten's fair s'tar to love none but you, You vow'd with my charms no one could compare, And to make me more happy was your crly care.

Before I-conſented for to be your bride, You vow'd to be true and eve no one beſide, Na ſooner your bride but you fled quite a way To the charms of Lucy, whom you think more gay.

Tho' loving at preſent, he's not conſtant to you, This my dear, now you know to be certainly true, Like to me, your wife, who did always prove' kind, Laſt November, my dear, pray keep in your mind.

I drew myſelf wear to a tree that was green, Where the leaves see ſo thick I could not be ſeen, A youth then appear'd with love in his eyes, And ſmiles on cheeks, that put'her in ſurpriſe.

Lament nos no more than my ſweet lovely Kate, I will make you happy, my deareſt kind mate, Now no more will grieve you, no more will I rove, Nor leave you to ramble, alone in the grove.

So now fall of joy both together they went, Quite pleaſant and happy their line now is ſpent, Never no more from each o'er to part, Till death gives the blow with his fatal dart.