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Aai. The riLLJGE OVtRA. ^
T'hh Sting of Deftre
Is but a Sweet-Brier^
And by Faolsit is caWd Cupid'i Dart.,
Which when thou art marry'* d a Seafon^
And once more returned to thy Reafon\
Will prove nothing elfe but Smart.
Col, Pray tell me, Lucas^ don't yoa think our old Mailer
Sir Nicholas is a little proud, and fpeeyifh, and humourfome as
it were?
Luc. O plaguey humourfome ; he is never fo pleas'd as wheii
Folk claw him, and tell him how rich he is : He thinks, for-
footh, becauTehe hath Money, that he is ignorant of nothing;
and he will be dirtding me every now and then, when he does
not know the Vine of a Mtlon from that of a Cucumber. Yott
know our young Lady is to be marry'd to-day.
Col. So they fay.
Luc. I wifti her well ; but the young Couple, it feems, have
never feen one another ; nor do the old Ones know, but by
Report, whether their Son, that is to be, will prove a Man ot
a Monkey. It has been made up by the old Ones — the
young Man is but juft come from his Travels.
Col. And if they do not like one another —
Luc. Why then 1 will tell thee, their Fathers may as well go
about to graft a Pear on a Fur^e-bufh ; but fo they fpread their
Muck, they mind not the Ground.
A I R V. Such Command o'er my Fate.
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WotCdyou fet in your Soil
A fair Tulip., or Rofe.,
With Art., and with feil^
T^hefrefh Sarth yen comfofe.
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