Occupations > K. James Ist. and the tinker

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PAUL AND NANNY.
■VOU batchelors that are willing to marry,
I’d have you he careful for fear you milcarry.
I’d have you be wife and mind who you marry,
Left you fbould be hamper’d like Paul and Nanny,
Sing rue> rue, rue, rue and be marry’d,
Sing fal drkldle, lal driddle, lal driddle laddy,
I’d have you take warning by Paul Nanny.
Paul he had nothing, but Nanny had money.
He call’d her his love, his joy, and his honey,
„ The day was appointed,-they were to be joined,
In the happy ftate of matrimony.
Sing rue, rue, &e.
Full ten months after the marriage was over,
Nanny her temper began to difcover,
She rung fuch a peal on the fide of his noddle,
"Which made his head ake, and his brains grefw addle.
Sing rue, rue, &c.
O you muf^get up, and make m? a fire.
Or any thing clfe that I do defire,
You muft wafh the difhes, and rock the cradle.
Or elfe at your head goes the fleimmet and laddie.
Sing rue, rue, &c.
O Nanny your words are very provoking,
I thought all the while you was but ajoking.
Although that your amorous charms bewitches.
Yet for all that, you fhan’t wear the breeches.
Sing rue, rue, &c.
Go fetch me feme water, and don’t ftand tnurm’ring
I Wifh that your breeches and you were a burning,
Come make up a fire, and put on the kettle,
For i’ll have fome tea, if you go to the devil.
Sing rue, rue, &c. ,
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