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And bragg’d to his companions all,
how he betray’d a woman.
However he has my ruin been,
and I’m undone for ever;
So how can man ever expert,
of worn#! any favour, Sec
But yet I will not curfe the youth,
but this I wifli in brief, fir,
That lie may wed a drunken wife,
then he’il have whore and thief, fir.
Sufficient piuiifhment I vow,
for any man alive, fir;
For he that’s ty’d to fncli a jilt.
I’m Hire can never thrive, fir. So
Now this is all the harm I wifii,
what think you of my prayer,
A drunken wife to be the lot,
of every maid’s betrayer:
A good wife is an ornament,
and makes a hufband priz’d,
Ikit miy he get a drunken jilt,
and fee him felt defpis’d. &j
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Tune—Avld Lahg Syne.
Hen flow’ry meadows deck the ye||
and fiporting lambkins play,