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<HEAD>The DYERS De&s;tin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>OR,</HI> The Loving Wife's Help in time of Need.</HEAD>
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<L>Two Trades is better far than one,</L>
<L>&s;weet Husband, then, &s;aid &s;he;</L>
<L>Then if thou wilt let me alone,</L>
<L>I'll be a help to thee.</L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Why are my Eyes &s;till flowing,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
<P>This may be Printed, <HI>R. P</HI></P>
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<L><HI>A Dyers</HI> Wife &s;he was a dainty curious Doe,</L>
<L>But with her Friend &s;he a Gadding would go,</L>
<L>Alas he could not keep his hand&s;ome wife at home,</L>
<L>For with her Gallant a broad &s;he would roam,</L>
<L>And when &s;he came to her husband each night,</L>
<L>Then like two <HI>Tygers</HI> together they'd fight,</L>
<L>And at each blow &s;he would often reply,</L>
<L><HI>Thou art a Cuckold and &s;o thou &s;halt dye.</HI></L>
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<L>You know full well I take the greate&s;t care of all,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e your &s;ub&s;tance would &s;oon be but &s;mall,</L>
<L>For why &s;hould I depend upon your Trade alone,</L>
<L>Is not two Callings far better than one;</L>
<L>Therefore i'de have thee be contented &s;till,</L>
<L>For I prote&s;t I will have my own will,</L>
<L>'Tis but a folly the &s;ame to deny,</L>
<L><HI>Thou art a Cuckold and &s;o thou &s;hallt dye.</HI></L>
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<L>Huswife, &s;aid he, and have you now the wanton pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>So that your husband is a Cuckold made,</L>
<L>What fla&s;h and blood is able for to bear with this?</L>
<L>You &s;hall, quoth &s;he, though you take it ami&s;s:</L>
<L>For I declare it &s;o nothing but true.</L>
<L>Which I have oftentimes hinted to you,</L>
<L>Nay I do hate to be found in a lye.</L>
<L><HI>thou art a Cuckold and &s;o thou &s;halt dye.</HI></L>
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<L>A <HI>Shooe-maker</HI> I own to be my chiefe&s;t friend,</L>
<L>There does the mo&s;t of my hopes &s;till depend,</L>
<L>Again&s;t we meet he is a Man that does provide,</L>
<L>Not only Money, but &s;omething be&s;ide:</L>
<L>Therefore you have no great cau&s;e to complain,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e to you I &s;till bring home the gain,</L>
<L>As for your Anger, I &s;till do d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">fie,</L>
<L><HI>Being a Cuckold and &s;o thou &s;halt dye.</HI></L>
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<L>The Dyer then, alas was in a cruel rage,</L>
<L>That nothing &s;carce could his Anger a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>Do not I bring to you my Wages e'ry week,</L>
<L>What need have you any Gallants to &s;eek;</L>
<L>At this his Wife &s;he was &s;traight in a huff,</L>
<L>Saying your Wages is not half enough,</L>
<L>Therefore be patient, &s;aid &s;he, do not cry,</L>
<L><HI>For thou'rt a Cuckold and &s;o thou &s;halt dye.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>It is well known our Cloaths were all at pawn of</L>
<L>And we reduc'd to a very mean &s;tate,</L>
<L>But now you &s;ee we make a very hand&s;ome &s;hift,</L>
<L>Thus I was forc'd to help at a dead lift;</L>
<L>I brought home Coyn by my indu&s;try,</L>
<L>The which I gave you all pawns to &s;et free,</L>
<L>The truth of this &s;ure you cannot deny,</L>
<L><HI>As you are a Cuckold, and &s;o you &s;hall dye.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Praynow did you e're flouri&s;h &s;o in all your Life,</L>
<L>As row you do by the help of your Wife,</L>
<L>Therefore my Crime you may very well here excu&s;e,</L>
<L>Tell me I pray, do you ever want Shooes?</L>
<L>Yet know you not the price of tho&s;e you wear,</L>
<L>I get them by my indu&s;trious care,</L>
<L>The truth of this &s;ure you cannot deny,</L>
<L><HI>As you are a Cuckold and &s;o you &s;hall dye.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>A Country-Man of mine you &s;ent me with one day,</L>
<L>Who in Apparel was gallant and gay,</L>
<L>To me he gave a Golden Guinea and no le&s;s,</L>
<L>But yet for what I will leave you to gue&s;s:</L>
<L>But for your comfort take this by the way,</L>
<L>You &s;halt big Gravel the next <HI>Horn-Fair</HI> day,</L>
<L>Basket and Pit-Axe I reckon to buy,</L>
<L><HI>For you are a Cuckold, and &s;o you &s;hall dye,</HI></L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>I. Blare,</HI> at the <HI>Looking-Gla&s;s</HI> on <HI>London Bridge.</HI></P>
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