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<HEAD>The Dor&s;et-&s;hire DAMOSEL: OR, <HI>Young</HI> NANCY <HI>at her la&s;t Prayer.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>Containing her earnest request to <HI>Ralph</HI> the Miller, to be &s;atisfied whether he would have her or no: Concluding with his kind An&s;wer.</P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Fond Boy,</HI> &amp;c. Or, <HI>Love's a &s;weet Pa&s;&s;ion,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>In <HI>Dor&s;et-&s;hire</HI> lived a young Miller by Trade,</L>
<L>Who had courted &s;weet <HI>Nancy</HI> an innocence Maid,</L>
<L>Full a Twelvemonth, or more he had kept her in hand;</L>
<L>She went to him at la&s;t that &s;he might under&s;tand</L>
<L><HI>What he meant by his fooling and &s;erving her &s;o,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Prithee tell me, quoth &s;he, if you'll have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>When fir&s;t you come to me, How kind was you then?</L>
<L>You would give me &s;weet Ki&s;&s;es a hundred and ten,</L>
<L>Nay, and told me that you did my Beauty adore,</L>
<L>Yet you have not been with me this two Months or more;</L>
<L><HI>Therefore pray now re&s;olve me before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>When ever I came with my Gri&s;t to your Mill</L>
<L>You would always be ki&s;&s;ing and courting me &s;till,</L>
<L>I could ne'er be at re&s;t and at quiet for you;</L>
<L>I appeal to you Conference if this be not true;</L>
<L><HI>Therefore pray now re&s;olve me before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>I Bought you a Cravat to go to a Fea&s;t,</L>
<L>One that co&s;t Half-a-crown, or two Shillings at lea&s;t,</L>
<L>And be&s;ides that I gave you thee Ei&s;s of good Linnen</L>
<L>For to make you a Shirt, of my Mother's own Spinning;</L>
<L><HI>Therefore prithee re&s;olve me before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>There's <HI>Roger</HI> would have me, and calls me his Dear;</L>
<L>He has got an E&s;tate of ten Shillings a Year,</L>
<L>Be&s;ides forty good Shillings and five in a Pur&s;e,</L>
<L>Therefore don't &s;poyl my Fortune and hinder me thus,</L>
<L><HI>But he pleas'd to re&s;olve me before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>You told me la&s;t <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> you'd make me, your Bride,</L>
<L>Wherefore new Knots and Favours I &s;trait did provide,</L>
<L>Yet you ne'er came a near me till now <HI>June</HI> the third;</L>
<L>E'ry hone&s;t Man would be as good as his Word:</L>
<L><HI>But I prithee re&s;olve me before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>You &s;olemnly &s;wore when I fat on your knee</L>
<L>That you then had a love and a kindne&s;s for me,</L>
<L>And if &s;o, What's the rea&s;on I am not your Bride?</L>
<L>Faith the&s;e lingering Bargins I near could abide;</L>
<L><HI>Let me now be re&s;olved before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>'Tis very well known I am ju&s;t in my Prime,</L>
<L>And to have a kind Husband I think it high time;</L>
<L>If at <HI>Michaelmas</HI> la&s;t the good deed had been done,</L>
<L>I might had before now a young Daughter or Son;</L>
<L><HI>Pray re&s;olve me this Que&s;tion before I do go,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Whether you do intend for to have me or no?</HI></L>
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<P><LABEL>The Young Man's An&s;wer.</LABEL></P>
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<L>SWeet <HI>Nancy,</HI> my Promi&s;e I do not forget,</L>
<L>But I am not re&s;olv'd to be Marry'd as yet;</L>
<L>The devouring Sword now is reigning you &s;ee,</L>
<L>And if I to the Wars &s;hould be forted from thee;</L>
<L><HI>Then thy grief, care and &s;orrow will daily encrea&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Therefore prithee Love &s;tay till a flouri&s;hing Peace.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Believe me, I &s;wear by the Powers above,</L>
<L>That I never will leave thee for any new Love,</L>
<L>My de&s;ires is that thou wilt patiently wait,</L>
<L>Till the Land is re&s;tor'd to a pro&s;perous State;</L>
<L><HI>If I live but till then thou &s;halt be my &s;weet Bride,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For I love none in all the whole Nation be&s;ide.</HI></L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>J. Deacon,</HI> at the <HI>Angel</HI> in <HI>Guilt-&s;pur-&s;treet</HI></P>
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