_Then they stripping of all their Cloaths_ _their Gowns their Petticoats Shooes & Hose[,]_ _Their fine white smickits then stripping & skipping[,]_ _no Body seeing them they suppose[,]_ _~Sarah~ enter’d the River so clear_ _and bid them follow they need not fear[,]_ _For why the Water is warm they replyed[,]_ _then into the River they sweetly glide._ _Finely bathing themselves they lay_ _like pretty Fishes they sport and play[,]_ _Then let’s be merry[,] said ~Nancy~, I fancy,_ _it’s seldom that any one walks this way[.]_ _Thus those Females were all in a Quill_ _and following on their Pastime still[,]_ _All naked in a most dainty trim_ _those Maidens like beautifull Swans did swim._ _Whilst they followed on their Game[,]_ _out came sweet ~William~ and ~Tom~ by name._ _They took all their Clothing and left nothing [t’ ’em:]_ _Maids was they not Villains and much to blame[?]_ _Likewise taking their Bottle of Wine[,]_ _with all their delicate Dainties fine[:]_ _Thus they were rifled of all their store,_ _was ever poor Maidens so serv’d before._ _From the River those Maidens fair_ _Return’d with sorrow and deep despair[;]_ _When they seeing, brooding[,] concluding_ _that somebody certainly had been there[,]_ _With all their Treasure away they run[,]_ _Alas[!] said ~Nelle~[,] we are undone,_ _Those Villains I wish they were in the Stocks,_ _that took our Petticoats Gowns and Smocks._ _Then Sweet ~Sarah~ with modest ~Prue~_ _they all was in a most fearful Hue[,]_ _Every Maiden replying and crying_ _they did not know what in the world to do[.]_ _But what laughing was there with the men_ _in bringing their Gowns and Smocks again[,]_ _The Maidens were modest & mighty mute[,]_ _and gave them fine curtsies and thanks to boot._ Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye Corner [1672-95.] Part II., pp. 120, 123 (App. p. lxxii.) _O Love if e’er, &c._ There is a parody or “Mock” to this, beginning “O _Mars_, if e’er thoult ease a blade,” and entitled “The Martial Lad,” in Wm. Hicks’ _London Drollery_, 1673, p. 116. End of Notes to _Westminster-Drollery_. APPENDIX. PART 4. § 1.—EXTRA SONGS IN THE MERRY DROLLERY, 1661. (_Not repeated in the 1670 and 1691 Editions._) _Falstaff._—“If Sack and Sugar be a fault, Heaven help the wicked.” (_Henry_ IV., Pt. 1, Act ii. Sc. 4.)