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 Now I will no longer tarry, but ſpeedily will marry,

then go to the church and I’ll make you my wife;

I am no pretender, my heart l will ſurrender,

then take it in keeping and bleſs me for life.

Now this ſweet couple are joined together,

the bells they did ring, and the muſic did play,

The trumpets were blowing ͜& full bowls were flowing,

with drinking and dancing it was a jovial day.

all you retailers of ſpirits give ear,

A comical ditty you quickly ſhall hear,

The one for roguery, and the other for wit,

You'll laugh when you hear how the biter was bit.

The firſt 1 make mention of, it is of a man,

He went to a houſe and he called for a dram,

They told him that they never ſold any gin,

But if that he pleas'd they would fetch him ſome in.

They ſent for a quartern without more delay,

He paid for the ſame and took it away;

He went and inform'd, ae the truth I do tell,

That at ſuch a man’s houſe they good gin did fell.

The man of the houſe ſtood in his own defence,

And to the contrary brought good evidence;

So this falſe informer in the pillory did ſtand,

He lies at the mercy of the retailer’s hand.

The next merry ditty was done as we hear,

In a public houſe where they ſold ale and beer;

A woman who cry’d bung your eye in the ſtreet,

It was then with the beadle ſhe chanc’d for to meet.

She ſet down the baſket, but now for the fun,

While he went for a glaſs out of doors ſhe did run;

So now we will leave her and turn to the man,

Who thought in the baſket ſhe'd left him ſome gin.