With Souldiers she’s often comraded And often does them much good, She’l save them the charge of a Surgeon In sickness for letting them blood; Corruption she draws like a horse-leech, [p. 150.] Growing she’ll prove a great breeder, At night she will creep in her cottage, By day she’s a damnable feeder. She’l venture as much in a battel As any Commander may go, But then she’l play Jack on both sides, She cares not a fart for her Foe: She knows that alwaies she’s shot-free, To kill her no sword will prevaile, But if she’s taken prisoner, She’s prest to death by the naile. She doth not esteem of your rich men, But alwaies sticks close to the poor; Nor she cares not for your clean shifters, Nor for such as brave cloaths wear; She loves all such as are non-suited, Or any brave fellow that lacks; She’s as true a friend to poor Souldiers, As the shirt that sticks close to their backs. She cannot abide your clean Laundress, Nor those that do set her on work, Her delight is all in foul linnen, Where in narraw seams she may lurk: From her and her breed God defend me, For I have had their company store, Pray take her among you[,] Gentry, Let her trouble poor souldiers no more. [As already mentioned, this is followed, in the 1661 Part Second, page 151, by The Concealment, beginning “I loved a maid, she loved not me,” which is the last of the songs or poems peculiar to that edition. See the end of our Supplement: so paged that it may be either omitted or included, leaving no _hiatus_. We add, after the Supplement, the title-page of the 1670 edition of _Merry Drollery, Compleat_; when reissued in 1691, the _same sheets_ held the fresh title-page prefixed, such as we gave in second Volume. Readers now possess the entire work, all three editions, comprehended in our Reprint: which is the Fourth Edition, but the first Annotated. J. W. E.] Appendix. APPENDIX. _Notes, Illustrations, Various Readings, and Emendations of Text._ (NOW FIRST ADDED.) Arranged in Four Parts:— 1.—_Choyce Drollery_, 1656. 2.—_Antidote against Melancholy_, 1661. 3.—_Westminster-Drollery_, 1674. 4.—_Merry Drollery_, 1661; and Additional Notes to 1670-1691 editions: with Index.