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<DATE>2008-07-06</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080613.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Debtford Plumb Cake,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>OR,</HI> The Four merry VVives.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>An Old Woman poor and blind.</HI></OPENER>
<HEADNOTE><P><HI>Licen&s;ed according to Order</HI></P></HEADNOTE>
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<L>Come all you &s;weet lips, <HI>round me &s;tand</HI></L>
<L>and hear a plea&s;ant tale,</L>
<L>With each &s;ome Plumb Cake in her <HI>hand</HI></L>
<L>and Cup of good napping Ale,</L>
<L>Then you might all as merry be</L>
<L>as lately was four good Wives,</L>
<L>Who take their Gla&s;&s;es of free,</L>
<L>and jollyly lead their lives.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Carpenters Wives were two of them,</L>
<L>and another a Smiths Wife prov'd,</L>
<L>The fourth a Seaman's for the Game,</L>
<L>the&s;e four did a young Man love,</L>
<L>He was a Mealman's Servant to</L>
<L>and often would frisk and play</L>
<L>At heave and &s;et as others do,</L>
<L>let it be by Night or Day.</L>
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<L>But one time among all the re&s;t,</L>
<L>they wanted a good Plumb Cake,</L>
<L><HI>And this the young Meal-Man did Prote&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>he would have a good one bak'd,</L>
<L>A Peck and a half of Flower &s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ight</L>
<L>he &s;ent <HI>the</HI> good Wives to <HI>kneed,</HI></L>
<L>Of Plumbs <HI>be &s;ent eleven Pou<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d weight,</HI></L>
<L>to make up the Cake with <HI>&s;peed.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>Seven</HI> pound of <HI>Butter</HI> to al&s;o,</L>
<L><HI>he &s;ent when he &s;ent the Plumbs,</HI></L>
<L>With Sugar for to make it &s;o</L>
<L>they might <HI>&s;weetly</HI> lick their Thumbs,</L>
<L>And when 'twas bak'd, then ore a Gla&s;s</L>
<L>they <HI>merry</HI> were all to be</L>
<L><HI>But</HI> mark I pray what came to pa&s;s,</L>
<L>which &s;poiled their jollitry,</L>
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<L>For when the Cake was made and bak'd</L>
<L>one of the good Wives did &s;ay,</L>
<L><HI>Come Neighbours where &s;hall we it take</HI></L>
<L><HI>and have our young</HI> Ned <HI>to day,</HI></L>
<L><HI>You know that he's a Lad &s;o free,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and willing to &s;erve us all,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I &s;wear</HI> I <HI>love him heartily,</HI></L>
<L><HI>i'll venture with him one fall.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>What if we to the Fountain go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>and there have our merry bout,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fie, Fie, one of the Wives did cry,</HI></L>
<L><HI>our Husbands will</HI> find <HI>us out,</HI></L>
<L><HI>What think you of the</HI> Greenwich <HI>blood,</HI></L>
<L><HI>they &s;ay it is Liquor rare,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A maich we all do think it good</HI></L>
<L><HI>and our Plumb Cake we'll not &s;pare.</HI></L>
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<L>So the four wives with brisk young <HI>Ned,</HI></L>
<L>met over &s;ome Liquor &s;tout,</L>
<L>Each thinking on <HI>the Cake to feed,</HI></L>
<L>but <HI>&V;ulk<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> had found <HI>them</HI> out,</L>
<L>And with his Hammer in his hand,</L>
<L><HI>he</HI> &s;oundly <HI>the Cake</HI> did maul,</L>
<L><HI>Yet Ned</HI> did all <HI>the Wives</HI> command,</L>
<L>and play'd Boys at up <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ails all.</L>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> printed for <HI>I. Jack&s;on,</HI> near <HI>Fleet &s;treet.</HI></P>
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