Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 — John Shaqi
Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
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Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6
Ballads, English; Songs, English
So the Peers they declared him a scandalous Sot,
And none thinks him fit to manage a Plot,
If _Newgate_ and _Tyburn_ does fall to his Lot,
_There's no Body will deny._
They gave him no more time than himself did require,
To find out his _Jones_ and the wandering 'Squire,
But the time being come, they were never the nigher,
_Which no Body can deny._
The brave House of _Commons_ next for him did send,
To hear what the Block-headly Fool wou'd pretend,
Who humbly request, that they wou'd him befriend,
_Which no Body can deny._
One day he declar'd they were near _London_ Town,
But the very next Day into _Wales_ they were flown,
Such nimble Heel'd Witnessess never were known,
_Which no Body can deny._
When being Examin'd about his sham Plot,
He answer'd as though he had minded them not,
Perhaps the Young Rogue had his Lesson forgot,
_Which no Body can deny._
But after some Study and impudent Tales,
Ask'd for a Commission to march into _Wales_,
And be Chang'd to a Herse, as Rogues goes to Gaols,
_Which no Body can deny._
But seeing his Impudence still to abound,
To go search for the Men who were not to be found,
They immediately sent him back to _Fleet_ Pound,
_Which no Body can deny._
From the _Fleet_ to the Cart may he quickly advance
To learn the true Steps of old _Oates's_ New Dance,
And something beside, or it is a great Chance,
_Which no Body can deny._
He has made it a Trade to be doing of Wrong,
In Swearing, and Lying, and Cheating so long,
For all his Life time, he's been at it ding dong,
_Which no Body can deny._
_Welch Taffy_ he raves and crys Splutterdenails,
He's abused hur Highness with Lies and with Tales,
Hur will hang hur if e'er hur can catch hur in _Wales_,
_Which no Body will deny._
_The Woman Warrior._
_Who liv'd in_ COW-CROSS _near_ WEST-SMITHFIELD; _who changing her
Apparrel, entered her self on Board in Quality of a Soldier, and
sailed to_ IRELAND, _where she Valiantly behaved her self,
particularly at the Siege of_ CORK, _where she lost her Toes, and
received a Mortal Wound in her Body, of which she since Died in her
return to_ LONDON.
[Music]
Let the Females attend,
To the Lines which are penn'd,
For here I shall give a Relation;
Of a Young marry'd Wife,
Who did venture her Life,
For a Soldier, a Soldier she went from the Nation.
She her Husband did leave,
And did likewise receive
Her Arms, and on Board she did enter;
And right valiantly went,
With a Resolution bent,
To the Ocean, the Ocean her Life there to venture.
Yet of all the Ships Crew,
Not a Seaman that knew,
They then had a Woman so near 'em;
On the Ocean so deep,
She her Council did keep,
Ay, and therefore, and therefore she never did fear 'em.
She was valiant and bold,
And would not be controul'd,
By any that dare to offend her;
If a Quarrel arose,
She would give him dry Blows,
And the Captain, the Captain did highly commend her.
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