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 When supper was over they sat in the hall.

This slender young Lady gave a loud squall.

The cholic, the cholic, the cholic, she cries,

I’m so bad with the cholic I’m sure I shall die.

The doctor was sent for, and when he came there,

He order’d the housemaid a drink to prepare:

The housemaid answered in the next room,

I’m so bad with the cholic I connot come down.

The doctor went up her pulse for to feel,

She said, I am sick from the head to the heel ;

The doctor he smiles, and then shook his head,

Said, My dear, you’ll be better when brought to bed.

The midwife was sent for, when she came there,

She deliver’d the Lady of a beautiful heir,

She delivered the housemaid then with the same,

The cookmaid and Joan made an end of the game.

The Captain drew a chair and bid her draw near,

And for the joke sake, I forgive you my dear;

There is one thing more, tell it if you can,

If the four babies were got by one man.

There was a young ’Squire that did me beguile,

And three of his servants got my maids with child;

So then said the Captain, I don’t care for that,

For that very night I had a merry carrant.

Unto the West Indies away I did steer,

I met a young damsel, her beauty shone clear;

I ask’d her a question,-she did not me deny,

I got her with child, and I bid her good-bye.





N the first day of June, in the year ninety-four,

The ensigns of France were enpurpl'd with gore;

Eight sail of their line to our arms made a bow,

And grac’d the atchievements of brave Earl Howe.

Hearts of Oak are our ships, etc.