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<HEAD>The Dumb MAID: OR, THE Young GALLANT Trappan'd.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>A young Man did unto her a VVooing come,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;he pretended much that &s;he was Dumb;</HI></L>
<L><HI>But when they both in Marriage-bands were ty'd,</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Doctor's Skill was likewi&s;e with her try'd;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Doctor he &s;et her Tongue on the Run,</HI></L>
<L><HI>She Chatters now, and never will have done.</HI></L>
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<OPENER><HI>To a new Tune, call'd, <HI>Dum, dum, dum:</HI> or, <HI>I would I were in my own Country,</HI> &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
<P>Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order.</P>
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<LG>
<L>ALl you that pa&s;s along,</L>
<L>Give ear unto my Song,</L>
<L>Concerning a Pout</L>
<L>that was young, young, young;</L>
<L>And of a Maiden fair,</L>
<L>F<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">w with her might compare,</L>
<L><HI>But alack, and alas, &s;he</HI></L>
<L><HI>was dumb, dumb, dumb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She was beautious, fre&s;h, and pay,</L>
<L>Like the plea&s;ant Flowers in <HI>May,</HI></L>
<L>And her checks was as round</L>
<L>as a plum, plum, plum;</L>
<L>She was near in every part,</L>
<L>And &s;he &s;tole away his Heart;</L>
<L><HI>But alack, and alas, &s;he</HI></L>
<L><HI>was dumb, dumb, dumb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At length this Country Blade,</L>
<L>Wedded this pretty Maid,</L>
<L>And he kindly conducted</L>
<L>her home, home, home,</L>
<L>Thus in her Beauty bright,</L>
<L>Lay all his whale Delight;</L>
<L><HI>But alack, and alas, &s;he</HI></L>
<L><HI>was dumb, dumb, dumb.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Now will I plainly &s;how</L>
<L>What wo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">k this Maid could do,</L>
<L>Which a pattern may he,</L>
<L>for Girls young, young, young;</L>
<L>O &s;he both day and night,</L>
<L>In working took delight;</L>
<L><HI>But alack, and alas, &s;he</HI></L>
<L><HI>was dumb, dumb, bumb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She could brew, and &s;he could bake,</L>
<L>She could wa&s;h, wring, and &s;hake,</L>
<L>She could &s;weep the Hou&s;e</L>
<L>with a broom, broom, broom:</L>
<L>She could knit, and &s;ow, and &s;pin,</L>
<L>And do any &s;uch like thing;</L>
<L><HI>But alack, and alas, &s;he</HI></L>
<L><HI>was dumb, dumb, dumb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But at la&s;t this Man did go,</L>
<L>The Doctor's Skill to know,</L>
<L>Saying, Sir, can you cure</L>
<L>a Woman of the Dumb?</L>
<L>O it is the ea&s;ie&s;t part,</L>
<L>That belongs unto my Art,</L>
<L>For to cure a Woman</L>
<L><HI>of the dumb, dumb, dumb.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To the Doctor he did her bring,</L>
<L>And he cut her Chattering-&s;tring,</L>
<L>And he &s;et her Tongue on</L>
<L>the run, run, run:</L>
<L>In the morning he did ri&s;e,</L>
<L>And &s;he fill'd his Hou&s;e with cries,</L>
<L>And &s;he rattled in his ears</L>
<L><HI>like a drum, drum, drum.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To the Doctor he did go,</L>
<L>With his heart well fill'd with woe,</L>
<L>Crying, Doctor, I am</L>
<L>undone, done, done;</L>
<L>Now &s;he's turn'd a &s;colding Wife,</L>
<L>And I am weary of my life,</L>
<L>Nor I cannot make her hold</L>
<L><HI>her tongue, tongue, tongue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Doctor thus did &s;ay,</L>
<L>When &s;he went from me away,</L>
<L>She was perfectly cured of</L>
<L>the dumb, dumb, dumb:</L>
<L>But it's beyond the Art of Man,</L>
<L>Let him do the be&s;t he can,</L>
<L>For to make a &s;colding Woman</L>
<L><HI>hold her tongue, tongue, tongue.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So as you to me came,</L>
<L>Return you back again,</L>
<L>And take you the Oyl</L>
<L>of H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">zel &s;trong;</L>
<L>With it anoint her Body round;</L>
<L>When &s;he makes the Hou&s;e to found;</L>
<L>So perhaps you may charm her</L>
<L><HI>tongue, tongue, tongue.</HI></L>
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