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7 SONG.

Husband, husband, cease your strife,
 * Nor longer idly rave, sir;

Tho’ I am your wedded wife,
 * Yet I am not your slave, sir.

“One of two must still obey,
 * Nancy, Nancy;

Is it man or woman, say,
 * My spouse Nancy.

If ’tis still the lordly word,
 * Service and obedience;

I’ll desert my sovereign lord.
 * And so, good b’ye allegiance.

“Sad will I be, so bereft,
 * Nancy, Nancy;

Yet I’ll try to make a shift,
 * My spouse Nancy.

My poor heart then break it must,
 * My last hour I’m near it;

When you lay me in the dust,
 * Think, think how you will bear it.