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
The Cuckold invited the Coachman to dine,
And gave him a Treat at his own Expence;
They drown'd all Cares in full brimmers of Wine,
He made him as welcome as any Prince:
There was all the Hungregation,
Which from _Cuckolds-Point_ was come;
They kissed and fumbled,
They touzed and tumbled,
_He was glad to take her rough as she run._
_Judge_ does enjoy her where he list,
He values not the old Cuckold's Pouts;
And she is as good for the Game as e'er pist,
Fudge on his Horns sits drying of Clouts:
She rants and revels when she pleases,
And to end as I begun,
The Horned Wise-acre,
Is forced to take her
_Without Hood or Scarff, and rough as she run._
_The_ MAIDEN LOTTERY: _Containing 70 Thousand Tickets, at a Guinea
each; the Prizes being Rich and Loving Husbands, from three Thousand
to one Hundred a Year, which Lottery will begin to draw on next_
VALENTINE'S _Day._
_Then pretty Lasses venture now,_
_Kind_ Fortune _may her Smiles alow._
[Music]
Young Ladies that live in the City,
Sweet beautiful proper and Tall;
And Country Maids who dabling wades,
Here's happy good News for you all:
A Lottery now out of hand,
Erected will be in the _Strand_;
Young Husbands with Treasure, and Wealth out of measure
Will fairly be at your Command:
_Of her that shall light of a Fortunate Lot,_
_There's Six of three Thousand a Year to be got._
I tell you the Price of each Ticket,
It is but a Guinea, I'll vow;
Then hasten away, and make no delay,
And fill up the Lottery now:
If _Gillian_ that lodges in Straw,
Shall have the good Fortune to draw
A Knight or a 'Squire, he'll never deny her,
'Tis fair and according to Law;
_Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lot,_
_There's Ten of two Thousand a Year to be got._
The number is Seventy Thousand,
When all the whole Lot is compleat;
Five Hundred of which, are Prizes most rich,
Believe me for this is no Cheat:
There's Drapers and Taylors likewise,
Brave Men that you cannot despise;
Come _Bridget_ and _Jenny_, and throw in your Guinea,
A Husband's a delicate Prize:
_Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lot,_
_There's Ten of one Thousand a Year to be got._
Suppose you should win for your Guinea,
A Man of three Thousand a Year;
Would this not be brave; what more would you have?
You soon might in Glory appear:
In glittering Coach you may ride,
With Lackeys to run by your side;
For why should you spare it? Faith win Gold and wear it;
Now who would not be such a Bride?
_Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lot,_
_There's Sixty, Five Hundreds a Year to be got._
Old Widows, and Maids above Forty,
Shall not be admitted to draw:
There's five Hundred and Ten, as proper young Men,
Indeed, as your Eyes ever saw:
Who scorns for one Guinea of Gold,
To lodge with a Woman that's Old;
Young Maids are admitted, in hopes to be fitted,
With Husbands couragious and bold:
_Then come pretty Lasses and purchase a Lot,_
_There are wealthy kind Husbands now, now to be got._
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