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Ah! Chloris.
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To the Tune of Gilder 'Roy.
AH! Chloris, cou'd I now but fit
As unconcern'd, as when
Your infant beauty cou'd beget
No happinefs nor pain.
When I this dawning did admire,
And prais'd the coming day,
I little thought that rifing fire
Wou'd take my reft away.
Your charms in harmlefs childhood lay,
As metals in a mine,
Age from no face takes more away,
Than youth conceal'd in thine :
But as your charms infenfibly
To their perfection preft ;
So love as unperceiv'd did fly,
And center'd in my breaft.
My paffion with your beauty grew,
While Cupid ax my heart,
Still as his mother favour'd you,
Threw a new flaming dart.
Each gloried in their wanton part;
To make a lover, he
Employ'd the utmoft of his art; —
To make a beauty, fhe.
Hooly and fairly.
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OH! what had I ado for to marry;
My wife the drinks naithing but fack and canary ;
I ro her friends complained right airly :
0 gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly,
Hooly and fairly, hooly and fairly ;
O gin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly.
Firft me drank Crummie, and fyne fhe drank Garie;
Now fhe has drunken my bonny grey mairie,
That carried me thro' the dub and the lairie:
O gm my wife, &c.
If fhe'd drink but her ain things I wad na much care,
She drinks my claiths I canna well fpare;
To the kirk and the market I gang fu' barely :
O gin my wife, &c.
If there's ony filler, fhe maun keep the purfe ;
If I feek but a baubee (he'll fcauld and fhe'll curfe:
She gangs like a queen, I fcrimped and fparely :
0 gin my wife, &c,
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I never was given to wrangling nor ftrife;
Nor e'er did refufe her the comforts of life:
E'er it come to a war I'm ay for a parley :
0 gin my wife, &c.
A pint wi' the cummers I wad her allow;
But when fhe fits down fhe fills herfelf fow;
And when fhe is fow fhe's unco camfterie:
O gin my wife, &c.
And when fhe comes hame fhe lays on the lads;
She ca's the laffes baith limmers and jades;
And I my ain fell an auld cuckold carlie:
Ogin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly',
Hooly and fairly, hooly and fairly;
Ogin my wife wad drink hooly and fairly.