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The FILLJGE OVJLRA. Aa 11.
do with a Wife, Goodman Delver'^. The Wench is handibme,
that is true ; bur don't you know that a Honey -pot draws all the
Wafps in the Garden after it?
AIR XXVI.
33C
Wanton Boy^
Pr'^ythee leave this T'oy ;
With thy Spade^ mind the delving 7'radc^
Quit filly Sporting^
And idle Courting^
You'll nothing gain by this Jlipp'ry Maid,
Why are not you at your Bufinefs, Colin"^.
Col. Sir, I was only fhowing my young Lady where I couM
make a very elegant Parterre, in the room of the Kitchen
Garden.
.Sir Nich. An elegant Parterre in the room of my Kitchen
Garden, Puppy ! and fo I am to have Tulips in my Soop, hah!
Col. No, sir; there is a Piece of wafte Ground
Sir Nich. I think a Parterre is a Piece of wafte Ground :
Don't you know, Dolt, that my Kitchen Garden furnilhes me
with many ufeful Materials for the Mouth, 1 muft part with
this Wench, Ihe has bewitch'd all the Parifh ; every Tree m.
my Park has a Sonnet in Praife of her fix'd upon it, and
her Name is graven by your Bone and Buck-handle Knives on
every Bark ; and thofe who cannot write, iti their Marks there ;
fo that my Trees are like to be ftripp'd ilark naked by thefe Lo-
vers in Dowlas. When I ask them a Queftion, they anfwer
me in a Sigh, or a Love-Song. Go, Sir, get you in, and fee
what is wanting for the Kitchen out of my Kitchen Garden,
and don't think of makingTrue-Lovers-Knots in a Parterre, you
Simpleton! Ha! ha! [iL>/> Colin.] Well, Forfooth, and
how ftands your Stomach towards Matrimony, I pray .^ I will
, have you obey me, and only ine; I know what is fit for you^
AIR