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Here was a young Captain was married of late,

It was to a young maid with a large estate,

He was a sea Captain, and bound for the sea,

And before he was bedded be was called away.

There was a young ’Squire that lived hard by,

He went to the lady, resolved to try,

Saying, The Captain your husband’s gone from home,

I’ll make him a cuckold before he return.

Early the next morning: the ’Squire he arose,

He dress’d himself in the best of his clothes;

With his footman, and coachman, and butler so fine,

He goes up to the Lady and bids her be kind.

He took her in his arms, and gave her a kiss,

Saying, A slice off a cut loaf will never be miss’d;

Says, Sir, You talk to me like one that is poor,

The Captain my husband will call me a whore.

Then to bed the Lady and ’Squire did go,

The housemaid and footman did follow also:

The cook and the coachman lay in the next room,

And the butler lay in the garret with Joan.

At night they did sport, & when day-light did come,

Five guineas he offer’d for daughters or sons;

Well then said the ’Squire, you need not to fear,

For I’ve father’d a score this very same year.

When six months were over and seven were past,

This slender young Lady grew thick in the waist.

When eight months were over & nine they were gone,

The very same night the Captain came home.

He took her in his arms and did her embrace.

He said. My dear jewel, you grow thick in the waist,

’Tis nothing but fat my dear,she did say,

Would you have me grow slender when you are at sea,