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Hard lingo and din it makes me look thin,

and my garments’ are out of order:

My wife fhe does jib and wallops my hide,

and ten times does make me cry murder.

I've oft heard it fpoke there was virtue in oak

I tried it and found it a folly;

She beat me full fore I was forced to give oer

and never more lift the fhitelah.

Modefty is dead and virtue is

and wifdoms deferted the nation:

The beautiful found of honours down

it filled my poor heart with vexation.

Now my brave boys is the time to be wife

and guard againft female delufion,

For the faireft you fee they create mifery,

and end in great fhame and confufion.

Sampfon was ftrong but by woman was fung

and woman made Soloman fimple.

Both Adam and Eve and Jacob a flave,

and Troy they've made an example.

Had I womans skill the French I would kill

or bring them to a capitalifation.

And with my broad fword would end the

and reconcile every nation. (difcord,