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38 Songs Compleat,
Or when that Whitsontide do fall,
Within the Month of January ;
And a Cobler works without an Awl,
O then my, <5rc.
When Women know not how to Scold,
And Maids on Sweet-hearts ne'er are thinking ;
When Men in the Fire complain of Cold,
And Ships on Salisbury Plain fear sinking :
Or when Horse-Coursers turn honest Men,
And London into York is earned ;
And out of One you can take Ten,
Oh then, &*c.
When Candlesticks do serve for Bells,
And Frying-pans they do use for Ladles ;
When in the Sea they dig for Wells,
And Porridge-pots they use for Cradles :
When Maids forget to go a Maying,
And a Man on his Back an Ox can carry ;
Or when the Mice with the Cat be playing,
Oh then, &>c.
Good Sir, since you have told me when,
That you're resolv'd for to Marry ;
I wish with all my Heart till then,
That for a Wife you still may tarry :
But if all young Men were of your mind,
And Maids no better were preferred j
I think it were when the D — 1 were blind,
That we and our Lovers should be Married.
Gil-