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<HEAD>THE Coy COOK-MAID, Who was Courted importunately by <HI>Iri&s;h, Welch, Spani&s;h, French</HI> and <HI>Dutch,</HI> but at la&s;t was conquered by a poor <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Taylor.</HEAD>
<OPENER><HI>To the Tune of, <HI>There was a brisk La&s;s.</HI> &amp;c. <HI>This may be Printed,</HI> R. P.</HI></OPENER>
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<L>John &s;crub'd up her rooms, made all things clean,</L>
<L>The tables, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> chaire, and the edge of the shreen,</L>
<L>She &s;cour'd eac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> pi&s;pot and pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ter-di&s;h</L>
<L>Make e'rything clean as heart could wi&s;h;</L>
<L>The <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">water and bra&s;s was &s;o very clear,</L>
<L>That <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">nting a gla&s;s, &s;he oft drew near,</L>
<L>To <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> her beat and curle her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word">,</L>
<L>Not one among&s;t twenty with her could compare.</L>
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<L>She wrote hit plumb po<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tage and &s;weet mine'd-ples,</L>
<L>The co&s;t-beef was laid down when &s;he did ri&s;e;</L>
<L>Dinner was ready, and lik'd &s;o well,</L>
<L>Not one among&s;t twenty could <HI>Joan</HI> excel;</L>
<L>They prai&s;s'd her &s;o much that <HI>Joan</HI> grew proud,</L>
<L>And then &s;he began to pra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e aloud,</L>
<L>I will have a husband oft &s;he cry'd,</L>
<L>I pretty young-man a lye by my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">e&punc;</L>
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<L>Then out &s;tept a <HI>Scot</HI> with blew bonnet on,</L>
<L>He lookt full as big as a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> &s;on</L>
<L>His pi&s;tol was under his chequer'd pla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>His whinyard was made of a <HI>Bilbo</HI> blade:</L>
<L>Quoth he, bread a gad, the day's mine a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">n,</L>
<L>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e as bonny a fellow as e'er was knawn,</L>
<L>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e will be this la&s;&s;ee, before I &s;e gang beam,</L>
<L>She'll mark me geud long<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">al to fill my weam,</L>
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<L>He come &s;alute her, but <HI>Joan</HI> was mad,</L>
<L>And call'd the poor &s;cotch man a &s;awey lad,</L>
<L>She took up the ladle and broke his &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>And told him he pro&s;&s;er'd his love too late:</L>
<L>Deel blin you, quoth <HI>Sawny,</HI> you na&s;ty &s;lut,</L>
<L>The wickl der<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;top <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">emp in your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ut,</L>
<L>I&s;en <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;et<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Joan</HI> to be my wife,</L>
<L>She'll e'ne meek on weary of my life,</L>
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<L>Then a &s;ine french-man took his place,</L>
<L>His cravet and ruffles where all of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">are.</L>
<L>Said he, begar, me comes to dis<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">place,</L>
<L>Me be much in love vid your<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;weet face,</L>
<L>Me no like no law v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n this town.</L>
<L>Begar, me no like dem, dey ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> much frown;</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> have &s;een all, me &s;ink dere's none</L>
<L>But may be compar'd vid mi&s;tri&s;s <HI>Joan.</HI></L>
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<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> be re&s;olve to lo&s;e my life</L>
<L>But me till have <HI>Joan</HI> to be my wife:</L>
<L><HI>Joan</HI> look'd about, and then reply'd,</L>
<L>The devil &s;hall be the french man's bride;</L>
<L>March to your portage you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">inical kn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</L>
<L>I'll ne't go to <HI>France</HI> to be your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ve;</L>
<L>Get you out of the kitchin, or el&s;e by <HI>Mars</HI></L>
<L>This &s;winging &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">t &s;hall run through your a&mdash;</L>
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<L>Poor mon&s;ieur lookt blank and &s;neakt away,</L>
<L>For his wife nor his life he dur&s;t not &s;tay;</L>
<L>Then enter'd on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;h man and &s;w&oacute;re</L>
<L>The noi&s;e of her beauty brought him o're;</L>
<L>No naam i&s;h <HI>Teague,</HI> and by my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>I prize by faith 'bove all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">n de Naa&s;hon,</L>
<L>Den preddee dear joy come ki&s;h my &s;hweet fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">h,</L>
<L>By &s;haint <HI>Phaatrick</HI> I never will leave this plaa&s;h.</L>
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<L>I have a potato-plat of my own,</L>
<L>An a &s;hnee&s;hing b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">h, 'ti&s;h very well known;</L>
<L>I have a &s;ehullogue to run by my <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">e,</L>
<L>I fait and trote thou &s;halt be my bride.</L>
<L>Be gone bogg-trotter, then <HI>Joan</HI> did cry,</L>
<L>Or the from &s;tick &s;hall on your &s;houlders lie,</L>
<L>Pack up your awle, and make &s;hort of your &s;tory,</L>
<L>Or I'll make you pay dear for your vain-glory.</L>
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<L>A &s;eaman from <HI>Holland</HI> then enter's the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>As muc-ken a ra&s;cal as ever <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t;</L>
<L>He Nought in his hand a bottle of <HI>Nans,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;wore 'twas the famou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t liquor in <HI>Fran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI></L>
<L>'I will make you <HI>Dutch</HI> &s;praagen before it be</L>
<L>Be gone (&s;aid &s;he) you drunken clown,</L>
<L>I'll pull <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">he blew rug from off your pate,</L>
<L>If you offer to &s;tay with <HI>Joan</HI> to prate.</L>
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<L>And then <HI>Jack Spaniard</HI> began to vapour,</L>
<L>With a mighty &s;hort cloak and a very l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<L>He offer'd his &s;ervice and proudly did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">ut,</L>
<L>But <HI>Joan</HI> went and gave him a kick with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>He in&s;olent dog (quoth &s;he) be gone,</L>
<L>There's none I hare more then a <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>I mean not to wait upon &s;uch a proud &s;inn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters"></L>
<L>Whil&s;t be is pomp'ring his guts at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">nner.</L>
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<L>The welch-man hearing the te&s;t were gone,</L>
<L>Re&s;olv'd that he would be with her a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="2 letters">on,</L>
<L>With le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">k in his bar, on St. <HI>Taffy</HI>'s day&punc;s</L>
<L>He came to <HI>Joan,</HI> and thus he did &s;ay:</L>
<L>Hur was a prave &s;hentleman in <HI>Wales,</HI></L>
<L>Hur has a food land, cots-plutter-a-nails,</L>
<L>Hur has a fine goat, and hur makes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">hee&s;e,</L>
<L>Was hur makes hur a lady if now hur plea&s;e&punc;</L>
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<L>But <HI>Joan</HI> prote&s;ted &s;he hated them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">lt.</L>
<L>And &s;wore to be at an engli&s;h man'd call;</L>
<L>She knew their humours and did not d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">ubs&punc;</L>
<L>But &s;ame or other would chu&s;e her out;</L>
<L>At la&s;t &s;he married a taylor good lord&punc;</L>
<L>And he the gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">sy frig at did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">eard;</L>
<L>They both were well pleas'd and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"> agreed,</L>
<L>And &s;he from the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t of her &s;uitors was freed.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> P. Brooksby, <HI>in</HI> Pre-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="4 letters">.</P>
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