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 Jolly Lads, as e'er were buckled in Girdle fast; Say which you will chuse, To tye with a Noose, For a Wife we must carry what e'er comes on't,       Then think upon't,    You'll never be sorry when y'have don't,    Nor like us the worse for our Wooing so blunt, Then tell us who pleases best.

The Lass who was not of the motion shy, The ripe Years of her Life Being Twenty and Five: To the Words of her Lover straight made reply, I find you believe me a Girl worth Gold, And I know too you like my Coppy-hold; And since Fortune favours the brisk and the bold, One of ye I mean to try. But I am not for you nor S's Cause, Nor you with your Hy's Hums and Hawes; No Jacob the Bigg, Nor William the Whigg, But Roger the Grigg, With his Mirth and mildness happily please me can; 'Tis him I will choose, For th' Conjugal Noose; So that you the Church Bully may rave and rant, And you may Cant, 'Till both are Impeacht in Parliament; 'Tis Union and Peace that the Nation does want, So I'm for the Moderate Man.