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<HEAD>A New SONG: OR, The Old Womans Wi&s;h.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of the Old Mans Wi&s;h.</OPENER>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>.I</HEAD>
<L>SInce Beauty now fails</L>
<L>And I find I decay,</L>
<L>Let this be my Wi&s;h;</L>
<L>In a Chimney not gay,</L>
<L>May I have a warme corner</L>
<L>And a Bench that's compleat</L>
<L>And a cleanly young Wench</L>
<L>To &s;weep the Hearth neat.</L>
<L><HI>May I govern the Young</HI></L>
<L><HI>By my whole&s;ome advice;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And as older, grow nearer</HI></L>
<L><HI>To be Stil'd prophete&s;s;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Without pride, yet my name</HI></L>
<L><HI>Than the Sibills not le&s;s</HI></L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>In a Garden that's furni&s;h'd</L>
<L>With herbs for the Still,</L>
<L>And a bed of choice Sallets,</L>
<L>Which I weed at my will;</L>
<L>With a &s;pacious Meade,</L>
<L>And a delicate Cow</L>
<L>And an Arbour to &s;et</L>
<L>And heare Colly to low.</L>
<L><HI>May I govern the Young</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>With a boild Chick on Sunday,</L>
<L>And a Dumpling that's &s;oft,</L>
<L>And a full teeming Jug,</L>
<L>With a motto that Oft</L>
<L>May have puzzled the learnd,</L>
<L>By the Old Sages writ;</L>
<L>Which in Letters of blew,</L>
<L>Is &s;tain'd round about it.</L>
<L><HI>May I govern the Young</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>With a Book of Feat tales,</L>
<L>And plea&s;ant Old Story's</L>
<L>And riddles by Saxons made</L>
<L>Long lived before us:</L>
<L>With a di&s;h of Minc'd Meat,</L>
<L>Or Pigs Pettitoes;</L>
<L>No gri&s;tles nor Brawn,</L>
<L>To give dangerous blows.</L>
<L><HI>May I govern the Young</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<L>With a Con&s;cience untainted,</L>
<L>May I pa&s;s my la&s;t day,</L>
<L>And when I am gon,</L>
<L>May the good Women &s;ay</L>
<L>In the Morning at mattens,</L>
<L>In the E'en at her Ale,</L>
<L>She's gon, and he's happy</L>
<L>Can tell out her tale:</L>
<L><HI>For &s;he govern'd the Young</HI></L>
<L><HI>By her whole&s;ome advice;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And as older grew nearer,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To be &s;til'd prophete&s;s;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Without pride, yet her name</HI></L>
<L><HI>Then the Sibils not le&s;s.</HI></L>
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<BYLINE>By <HI>S P.</HI></BYLINE>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>G. Croom,</HI> over again&s;t <HI> Baynard</HI>'s <HI>Ca&s;tle</HI> in <HI>Thames-&s;treet.</HI> 1684.</P>
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