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<VID>181903</VID>
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<HEAD>The London la&s;&s;es Hue-and-Cry <HI>After Her Dearly Beloved Robin, Whom &s;he unluckily lo&s;t la&s;t <HI>Saturday</HI> Night.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of the <HI>Rant.</HI></OPENER>
<P>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</P>
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<LG>
<L>GOod People pray give your Attention,</L>
<L>Vnto this my new Hue-and-cry,</L>
<L>Tis after my Love, and I'll mention</L>
<L>his Form, and Apparrel, for why,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Without him I can't be contented,</L>
<L>he is the Sole-joy of my life,</L>
<L>For him I have went, and lamented,</L>
<L>I fear I &s;hall ne'er be a Wife.</L>
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<LG>
<L>O he is my joy, love and honey,</L>
<L>I lo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">im la&s;t <HI>Saturday</HI> night,</L>
<L>I'd give twenty Shillings in Money</L>
<L>to tho&s;e that bring him to light.</L>
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<LG>
<L>He has I mu&s;t tell ye, two Faces,</L>
<L>his head it &s;tands quite all awry,</L>
<L>He Amb'<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s and h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">th all his Paces,</L>
<L>likewi&s;e he is &s;even hands high.</L>
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<L>YOu'll &s;ay that there is not a &s;weeter</L>
<L>young man in the Kingdom than he,</L>
<L>I now will d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ribe e'ry Feature,</L>
<L>if that you will li&s;ten to me.</L>
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<L>His Skin is as fair as tann'd Leather,</L>
<L>likewi&s;e his &s;weet Face to adorn,</L>
<L>His No&s;e and his Hat meets together</L>
<L>turn'd up like a Sow-gelders-Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n.</L>
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<LG>
<L>His Teeth they are black, green and yellow,</L>
<L>tho&s;e changeable Colours are fine,</L>
<L>And like to the fair Crim&s;on <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">allow,</L>
<L>his Cheeks too with Beauty does thine.</L>
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<LG>
<L>His pretty &s;weet Mouth I admire,</L>
<L>which froaths like a Tankard of Purt,</L>
<L>The hair of his Head like &s;oft Wire,</L>
<L>you'll find than of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aggot-&s;tick Curl,</L>
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<L>His pretty &s;weet Eyes like two Saweers,</L>
<L>his wounded my heart now I &s;ee,</L>
<L>His Ears they &s;tand out like two <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aw<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ers,</L>
<L>a pretty &s;weet Creature is he.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Now having de&s;cribed his Beauty,</L>
<L>his Body mu&s;t no ways e&s;cape,</L>
<L>For here I account it my Duty,</L>
<L>is tell ye his delicate &s;hape.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I think in the wa&s;te he is &s;maller</L>
<L>than the large&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of a Drum,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides I am &s;ure he is taller</L>
<L>by the head, than hone&s;t <HI>Tom Thumb.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>O he <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s a mo&s;t delicate Og<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">re,</L>
<L>his Hips they do &s;tand out behind</L>
<L>As broad as a Bu&s;hel and bigger,</L>
<L>would I this &s;weet Creature could find.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Some Uillains his death has contrected,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> he'd not have left me I'm &s;ure,</L>
<L>I &s;hall go quite mad and di&s;tracted,</L>
<L>this lo&s;s I can never endure.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Look after my love Friends and mind him.</L>
<L>his Age is about twenty five,</L>
<L>A Guinay I'll gi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e tho&s;e that find him,</L>
<L>and bring him now dead or alive.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Perhaps they have pre&s;t my &s;weet Iewel,</L>
<L>to give him as <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">rers place,</L>
<L>But &s;ure they wou'd ne'er be &s;o cruel,</L>
<L>to take &s;uch a pretty &s;weet f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ce.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Goods People with pitty be fill'd <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o,</L>
<L>and &s;eek <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> all with one accord,</L>
<L>Then come to the &s;ign of the Dildoe,</L>
<L>and there you &s;hall have your Reward.</L>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> P. Brooksby, I. Deacon, I. Blare, <HI>and</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">. Yack.</P>
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