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The goodwife cries butt the houfe, Jenny, come ben,
The cheefe is to mak, and the butter's to kirn.
Tho' butter, and cheefe, and a' fhou'd four,
1*11 crack and kifs wi' my love ae haff hour ;
It's ae haffhour, and we's e'en mak it three,
For the yellow hair'd laddie my husband mall be.
SONG.
To the Tune of, Booth's Minuet,
FA I R, fweet and young, receive a prize,
Referv'd for your victorious eyes :
From crowds whom at your feet you fee,
Oh! pity, anddiftinguiftime.
No graces can your form improve $
But all are loft unlefs you love :
If that dear paffion you difdain,
Your charms and beauty are in vain. X,
Part of an Epilogue fung after the acting of
the Orphan and Gentle Shepherd in
Taylors-hall, by a Set of young Gentlemen?
January 22, 1729.
Tune, BeJJy Bell.
THU S let us fludy night and day,
To fit us for our Ration,
That when we're men we parts may play
Are ufeful to cur nation.
For now's the time, when we are young,
To fix our views on merit,
Water its buds, and make the tongue
And action fuit the fpirit.
This all the fair and wife approve,
We know it by ycur fmiling,.
.And while we gain refpecLand love^
Our ftudies are not toiling. g^