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(7) And nursing and ſpinning is all your employment,

And twenty things more to do all the day;

This is the fruit of your wedlock enjoyment,

You ne'er wou'd a marry’d had you known the way.

Says Moll to her Miſtress, I pray you give over;

For I am resolved for to take a man;

The richest ſhip that ever was loaden,

Muſt take her chance of both rock and ſand;

Therefore I am fully reſolved to marry,

Let you and every one ſay what they may;

I long for to taste of wedlock enjoyments,

And oh! to be marry'd if this be the way.



THE HONEST SAILOR.

girl, who fain wou'd chuse a mate,

shou'd ne'er in fondness fail her;

May thank her lucky, if Fate

shou'd splice her to a Sailor:

He braves the storm, the battle's heat,

the yellow boys to nail her;

Diamonds, if diamonds she could eat,

wou'd seek her honest Sailor.