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<HEAD><HI>The Scotch Lad's Moan.</HI> OR, Pretty <HI>Moggies</HI> Unkindne&s;s.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To an excellent New Scotch Tune.</OPENER>
<P>This may be Printed, <HI>R. P.</HI></P>
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<L><HI>A</HI> Lad o'th' Town that made his moan</L>
<L>one Winters morning early,</L>
<L>Alas! that I mu&s;t lye alone,</L>
<L>and <HI>Moggies</HI> bed &s;o near me;</L>
<L>All night I turn, and to&s;s, and &s;igh,</L>
<L>And never can I clo&s;e my eyes,</L>
<L>For thinking that I lig &s;o nigh</L>
<L>the La&s;s I love &s;o dearly.</L>
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<L>She's all Delight from foot to crown,</L>
<L>and ju&s;t &s;ixteen her Age is,</L>
<L>And that &s;he &s;till mu&s;t lye alone,</L>
<L>my heart and &s;oul enrag'd is:</L>
<L>I'd give the World I might put on</L>
<L>Each morn her &s;tockings or her &s;hoon;</L>
<L>If I were but her &s;erving-Loon,</L>
<L>I'd never ask for Wages.</L>
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<L>GIn <HI>Moggy</HI> wou'd but he my Bride,</L>
<L>I'd take no farther warning,</L>
<L>Nor value au the world be&s;ide,</L>
<L>nor other La&s;&s;es &s;corning;</L>
<L>My love is grown up to the height,</L>
<L>I prize &s;o much my own delight,</L>
<L>I care not, had I her one night,</L>
<L>&s;o I was dead i'th morning.</L>
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<L>Geud faith, &s;he's like a pretty La&s;s,</L>
<L>I never &s;aw a &s;weeter;</L>
<L>She all her Sex does far &s;urpa&s;s</L>
<L>in Beauty and in Feature:</L>
<L>Gin on her face I chanc'd to gaze,</L>
<L>Her pretty looks &s;uch Charms di&s;plays,</L>
<L>That I mu&s;t ever &s;peak her prai&s;e;</L>
<L><HI>Venus</HI> was not compleater.</L>
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<L>When ever <HI>Moggy</HI> I e&s;py,</L>
<L>I lowly dof my Bonnet;</L>
<L>And oft in her &s;weet company</L>
<L>I &s;ing a love-&s;ick Sonnet:</L>
<L>Yet &s;he regardle&s;s of my pain,</L>
<L>Which I &s;trive to expre&s;s in vain,</L>
<L>Bids me forbear for to complain,</L>
<L>and tell her no more on it.</L>
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<L>Ah waes me! <HI>Moggy</HI>'s to blame,</L>
<L>not to grant my de&s;ire;</L>
<L>Gin &s;he did fir&s;t create the flame</L>
<L>which &s;et my heart on fire.</L>
<L>Was I a King of great Renown,</L>
<L>And had a Scepter and a Crown,</L>
<L>I at her feet wou'd lay them down,</L>
<L>one night for to lig by her.</L>
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<L>Gin &s;he &s;o mickle is unkind,</L>
<L>my life is grown unea&s;ie;</L>
<L>No re&s;t nor quiet can I find,</L>
<L>nor nothing that can plea&s;e me.</L>
<L>But if &s;he &s;till continues &s;o,</L>
<L>And no more kindne&s;s will be&s;tow,</L>
<L>To the <HI>Elizium</HI> &s;hades I go;</L>
<L>ah! Death will quickly &s;eize me.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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