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Ani! if 'tii but a Woman what care f,
What care I, what care I,
It 'as but a Woman what care I.
Then who'd be damn'd, to fwear untrufi
And Sigh, and Weep, and Whine, and WooCs
As aii our fimple Coxcombs do;
All V/omen love it, and iho' this
Does fuUenly forbid the Blifs,
Try but the next you cannot mifs.
SONG CCXLIX. Since there's, &c.
SINCE there's fo fmall Diff'rence 'twixt
drowning and drinking,
Well tipple and pray too, like Mariners link-
ing J
Whilft they drink Salt-Water, we'll pledge 'em
in Wine,
And pay our Devotion at Bacchns^s Shrine;
Okl Bacchus, j^re^ai Bacchusj/or ever defend us.
And pletitiftil Store of good Burgundy /e«</«5.
from cens'sing the State, and what palTes above$
From a Surfeit of Cabbage, from Law-fuits and
Love;
From mcdiing with Swords, and fuch dangerous
things,
And haniiling of Guns in defiance of Kings;
Ohl Bacchus, iSr»c.
Ftom riding a Jade that will ftart at a F^cather,
Or ending a Journey with Lofs of much Leather,
From the Folly of dying for Grief or Defpair,
Wuh our Heads in the Water, Oi;Hefls in thfe
A!r:
Ohl Racchus, 6^. '
Fr<Bm a Ufurer^slGiipe, and from every Man,
Th^t boldly pretKnds tu d^juore thaa he can^