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Pleasant and Diver live. 9
Jolly Lads, as e'er were buckled in Girdle fast ;
Say which you will chuse,
To tye with a Noose,
For a Wife we must carry what e'er comes on't,
Then think upon't,
You'll never be sorry when y'have don't,
Nor like us the worse for our Wooing so blunt,
Then tell us who pleases best.
The Lass who was not of the motion shy,
The ripe Years of her Life
Being Twenty and Five :
To the Words of her Lover straight made reply,
I find you believe me a Girl worth Gold,
And I know too you like my Coppy-hold ;
And since Fortune favours the brisk and the bold,
One of ye 1 mean to try.
But I am not for you nor S 's Cause,
Nor you with your H fs Hums and Hawes ;
No Jacob the Bigg,
Nor William the Whigg,
But Roger the Grigg,
With his Mirth and mildness happily please me can j .
'Tis him I will choose,
For th' Conjugal Noose ;
So that you the Church Bully may rave and rant,
And you may Cant,
'Till both are Impeacht in Parliament ;
'Tis Union and Peace that the Nation does want,
So I'm for the Moderate Man.
The
Jolly Lads, as e'er were buckled in Girdle fast ;
Say which you will chuse,
To tye with a Noose,
For a Wife we must carry what e'er comes on't,
Then think upon't,
You'll never be sorry when y'have don't,
Nor like us the worse for our Wooing so blunt,
Then tell us who pleases best.
The Lass who was not of the motion shy,
The ripe Years of her Life
Being Twenty and Five :
To the Words of her Lover straight made reply,
I find you believe me a Girl worth Gold,
And I know too you like my Coppy-hold ;
And since Fortune favours the brisk and the bold,
One of ye 1 mean to try.
But I am not for you nor S 's Cause,
Nor you with your H fs Hums and Hawes ;
No Jacob the Bigg,
Nor William the Whigg,
But Roger the Grigg,
With his Mirth and mildness happily please me can j .
'Tis him I will choose,
For th' Conjugal Noose ;
So that you the Church Bully may rave and rant,
And you may Cant,
'Till both are Impeacht in Parliament ;
'Tis Union and Peace that the Nation does want,
So I'm for the Moderate Man.
The
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| Special collections of printed music > Glen Collection of printed music > Printed music > Wit and mirth, or, Pills to purge melancholy > Volume 1 > (27) Page 9 |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/87652697 |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.145 |
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| Description | Being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set. 6 volumes. London, Printed by W. Pearson for J. Tonson, 1719-20. A 19th century reprint from a broken set of the two issues of the 1719-1720 edition. Volumes 1, 3-5 belong to the first issue; Volumes 2 and 6 to the second. |
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| Shelfmark | Glen.145-145e |
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| Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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| Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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