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<HEAD>The BITER BITTEN,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">OR, The <HI>Broker</HI> well-fitted by the <HI>Joyner,</HI> and the <HI>Joyners</HI> Wife.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>This Crafty Knave, thought to In&s;lave,</HI></L>
<L><HI>in &s;ending for his Wife;</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Gold they keep, and he may Weep,</HI></L>
<L><HI>to mend his Wicked Life.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>The two Engli&s;h Travellers.</HI></OPENER>
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<P>This may be Printed,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<LG>
<L><HI>A</HI> Lu&s;ty &s;tout Ioyner he had a fair Wife.</L>
<L>A Broker he loved as dear as his life;</L>
<L>He &s;ought by all cunning how he might in&s;nare,</L>
<L>And draw into evil this beautiful fair.</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Broker he courted this beautiful dame,</L>
<L>So hot and &s;o eager he was at the game;</L>
<L>He &s;aid twenty Guineys on thee I'le be&s;tow,</L>
<L>If thou wilt be willing &s;ome kindne&s;s to &s;how.</L>
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<LG>
<L>With mode&s;t behaviour his &s;uit &s;he deny'd,</L>
<L>And would in his pre&s;ence no longer abide;</L>
<L>But telling her husband for what he did &s;ue,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e the Guineys he proffer'd her too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ioyner he &s;miled when hearing this news,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e was loath &s;uch a booty to loo&s;e;</L>
<L>He bid her &s;eem willing &amp; take the reward,</L>
<L>And tell him at night you will kindne&s;s afford.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now by his inventions a &s;nare he had laid,</L>
<L>Wherein this rich Broker in &s;hort was betray'd,</L>
<L>Next proffer of kindne&s;s, &s;he cea&s;ing to frown,</L>
<L>Ask him for his Guineys he tender'd them down.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then home to her chamber &s;he did him invite,</L>
<L>To come about eight of the clock in the night;</L>
<L>For my unkind husband hath taken his roam,</L>
<L>To &s;ee his relations and left me at home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Broker he ki&s;t her and caper'd for joy,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e &s;he no longer did &s;eem to be coy,</L>
<L>He thought e'ry hour as long as a day,</L>
<L>But now you &s;hall hear how they did him betray.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The long lookt for hour at length he beheld,</L>
<L>His heart with abundance of joy then was fill'd</L>
<L>She &s;hew'd him his lodgding where he was to lye,</L>
<L>And &s;olemnly &s;aid &s;he would come by and by.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While he lay expecting his Amorous Dame,</L>
<L>They &s;ent for his Wife, who immediately came;</L>
<L>To whom the whole &s;tory at length they did tell,</L>
<L>And bid her with patience her &s;orrow expell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His Wife was amazed at what they had told,</L>
<L>And being re&s;olved likewi&s;e to behold:</L>
<L>The depth of this frolick before &s;he did go,</L>
<L>They likewi&s;e was willing that it &s;hould be &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ioyner and his Wife they tarry'd below,</L>
<L>While &s;he to her husband in her &s;tead did go:</L>
<L>And when &s;he came almo&s;t unto the Bed-&s;ide,</L>
<L>O why did'&s;t thou tarry &s;o long he reply'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She being not ha&s;ty to pull off her cloaths,</L>
<L>The Broker in kindne&s;s immediately ro&s;e,</L>
<L>With ki&s;&s;es he call'd her the joy of his life,</L>
<L>Suppo&s;ing it had been the Ioyners fair wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She &s;oftly did whi&s;per, it is a great &s;in,</L>
<L>Which your fond allurements are drawing me in;</L>
<L>I ne'r in my life did commit &s;uch a crime,</L>
<L>And therefore I now am unw<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">lling this time.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My dear be not fearful but let us injoy,</L>
<L>Our freedom of plea&s;ure, here none can annoy:</L>
<L>I'le give thee choice Iewels with plenty of Gold,</L>
<L>Let me not &s;tand courting my love in the cold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The&s;e large prote&s;tations I pray Sir forbear,</L>
<L>Since you have a Wife that is beauteous and fair:</L>
<L>Said he, &s;he was never admired by me.</L>
<L>I love thee a thou&s;and times better then &s;he.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He knew not he talkt to his wife all the while,</L>
<L>At length &s;he began for to rant and revile,</L>
<L>She teas'd him and tore him about in his Shirt,</L>
<L>Nay kickt him and thumpt him and beat him like dirt&punc;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It was in the dark, and &s;he having a Mask,</L>
<L>He thought that the Devil had took him to task:</L>
<L>The heat of her fury &s;he never forbears,</L>
<L>Vntil &s;he had tumbl'd him headlong down &s;tairs.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His head knees and Elbows, was broke with the fall,</L>
<L>For mercy and pitty the Broker did call:</L>
<L>But yet &s;uch a peal in his ears &s;he did ring,</L>
<L>He wi&s;h'd he had never attempted the thing,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ioyner and his Wife they parted the fray,</L>
<L>But never a word of the Guinneys did &s;ay,</L>
<L>Nor yet the poor Broker, alas, for his life,</L>
<L>For fear of the anger and rage of his wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Broker he &s;aid, my &s;weet Wife now forgive</L>
<L>This thing, and i'le ne'r do the like while I live:</L>
<L>In pitty &s;he pardon'd her husband his crime,</L>
<L>And likewi&s;e &s;he bid him beware the next time.</L>
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