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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Plea&s;ant New Song called The Cony BARBER, Or, A young Ladies Delight, how &s;he trim'd her Maid, when &s;he was on the Straw a&s;leep.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To a plea&s;ant new <HI>We&s;t</HI>-Country Tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>YEa Females draw near, &s;ome news you &s;hall hear</L>
<L>of a Lady that is very well known,</L>
<L>She is one of the name, that is right for the Game</L>
<L>but &s;trangely pre&s;erved her own;</L>
<L>Though tender in years, as it plainly appears</L>
<L>No fear could her Faculty awe,</L>
<L>For a Vow &s;he hath made to be one of the Trade;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>which hath made you laugh hah, hah hah, hah.</HI></L>
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</LG>
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<L>No thoughts could expire her earne&s;t de&s;ire</L>
<L>a Cony Barber to be,</L>
<L>With In&s;truments neat, and all things compleat</L>
<L>in &s;hort provided had &s;he,</L>
<L>Her Powder in Box for perfuming your Locks,</L>
<L>The be&s;t that ever you &s;aw,</L>
<L>Her Rai&s;or &s;o kine if you had filted between,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>it would have made you laugh hah, hah, hah, hah.</HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>And likewi&s;e her Yeuer, there is none can procure</L>
<L>in Fair or in City or in Town,</L>
<L>Her Wa&s;hing-Ball &s;weet, if that you do meet,</L>
<L>the like if you plea&s;e to lye down,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 letter">er Si&s;&s;ers and Come, will be &s;ure to reach home,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> hair for to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>She can paint, &s;he can porl, cri&s;p, powder and curl,</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> or the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Cut.</L>
<L>Mi&s;cheators or Bear, or what you will wear,</L>
<L>each Hair in order &s;hee'l put,</L>
<L>For bru&s;hing, for rubbing, for lathering for frubing,</L>
<L>Whether it be a Fro&s;t or a Thaw,</L>
<L>Her Water Pot, &s;he keeps always hot,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for to make you laugh, hah, hah, hah, hah.</HI></L>
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</LG>
<LG>
<L>When <HI>Febus</HI> addre&s;t, to view the North We&s;t</L>
<L>and <HI>Ve&s;per</HI> had &s;eal'd up the day,</L>
<L>She was not afraid to make u&s;e of her Trade.</L>
<L>in the place where &s;he u&s;ed to play,</L>
<L>Where &s;he found out a Maid, whom her &s;elf had laid,</L>
<L>Who &s;oundly &s;lept on the Straw,</L>
<L>She gave her a trim, if you thither had bin,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>it would have made you laugh, hah, hah, hah, hah.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She &s;lumbred, &s;he, &s;leept, &s;he &s;ighed and weept,</L>
<L>&s;trange Vi&s;ions were inter in&s;ear'd</L>
<L>She &s;eemed to &s;py, one &s;having &s;o nigh,</L>
<L>who trimb of the Skin with the Beard,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e &s;he dreams, and al&s;o proclaims</L>
<L>Some Rook or el&s;e &s;ome Iack Daw</L>
<L>W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> to the Fair, <UNCLEAR>for to &s;ell of her hair</UNCLEAR></L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>She was nimble and quick, though &s;he hath gotten the Trick</L>
<L>yet &s;he dares not her fingers to knock</L>
<L>Lea&s;t &s;he &s;hould affright, the Slumber in wait,</L>
<L>before &s;he had ordered her Lock;</L>
<L>For betwixt the heaps, &s;he opened the Lips</L>
<L>And found never a Tooth in the Iaw,</L>
<L>She tripped away without any pay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>that hath made you laugh, hah, hah, hah, hah.</HI></L>
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<L>With weeping cro&s;s, &s;he lamented her Lo&s;s</L>
<L>till the Cony Barber &s;he had found,</L>
<L>And by a great name, had gotten the Fame</L>
<L>throughout all the fir&s;enty round,</L>
<L>They wrangled, they jangled, they &s;trangely entangled</L>
<L>Like Cats they &s;cratch and they claw,</L>
<L>It would a yield you delight, for to &s;ee &s;uch a fight,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and a made you laugh, hah, hah, hah, hah,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Barber complains &s;he &s;o paid for her Pain</L>
<L>and the Boys cryes it for a may-game,</L>
<L>To her Mother &s;he goes for to puni&s;h all tho&s;e,</L>
<L>who dares to give her that Name,</L>
<L>Her Friends being wi&s;e, they thought to &s;urpri&s;e</L>
<L>The bu&s;ine&s;s while it was raw,</L>
<L>To a Iu&s;tice they gi&s;s, which was the way to &s;uppre&s;s,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and to make you laugh, hah, hah, hah, hah,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then a brave Troop of Hor&s;e, provided there was.</L>
<L>for to have the bu&s;ine&s;&s;es well &s;kand</L>
<L>You mu&s;t think for a while, how his Wor&s;hip did smile</L>
<L>when fir&s;t took the bu&s;ine&s;s in hand,</L>
<L>He told the time, would extingui&s;h the Crime,</L>
<L>And the Boys would forget what they &s;aw,</L>
<L>Likewi&s;e time would repair, the lo&s;s of that Hair;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>that hath made you laugh, hah, hah, hah, hah,</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then Mi&s;tre&s;s <HI>Tell-Truth</HI> would have taken her Oath,</L>
<L>that this Maid &s;tole one grain of her Wheat,</L>
<L>And much to discover, to have her bound over,</L>
<L>the art was more heinous then great,</L>
<L>For his Wor&s;hip knew well when Women Rebel</L>
<L>No Iu&s;tice therefore could her awe</L>
<L>For he bid them deride on every &s;ide;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and bur&s;t out with a hah, hah, hah, hah,</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>This Maid &s;till &s;aid, that &s;he would be paid</L>
<L>for lo&s;ing the crop of her Field,</L>
<L>The Fountain &s;o near with a half yeare</L>
<L>a better Cut might yield,</L>
<L>For the Caves was &s;o bare, that no action lay there</L>
<L>Nor any Commencement in <UNCLEAR>Law</UNCLEAR>,</L>
<L>For they rid out like Mome, and &s;o they Rid home,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI><UNCLEAR>which</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></L>
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