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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The We&s;t-Country Weaver:</HEAD>
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<P>CONTAINING His Sorrowful Lamentation for the Hard&s;hip which he undergoes by a Proud Imperious WIFE: Together, With his Re&s;olution to reclaim Her by the Well-approved <HI>Oil of HOLLY.</HI></P>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>If Love's a &s;weet Pa&s;&s;ion, &amp;c.</HI></OPENER>
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<P>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</P>
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<LG>
<L>GOod People I marry'd a turbulent Wife,</L>
<L>Who with railing has made me quite weary of Life;</L>
<L>Tho' I do my endeavour to give her content,</L>
<L>Yet my Labour, alas! to no purpo&s;e is &s;pent:</L>
<L>On her Errands, Peel-garlick her Husband &s;he &s;ends;</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You may &s;ee what it is to be marry'd, dear Friends.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When I was a Batchelor gallant and gay,</L>
<L>Then at Stool-ball, or Cricket, I freely might play,</L>
<L>Nay, and &s;ometimes with <HI>Margery</HI> ride to a Fair;</L>
<L>But, alas! now my Head is incumbred with Care:</L>
<L>I mu&s;t tarry at home for to feed my Wife's <UNCLEAR>Hens</UNCLEAR></L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You may &s;ee what it is to be marry'd, <UNCLEAR>dear Friends.</UNCLEAR></HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I am Acquaintance do happen to meet</L>
<L>Any time in the Day, as I pa&s;s through the Street,</L>
<L>And that we for one Flaggon together &s;hould go,</L>
<L>Strait &s;he comes like a loud and invincible &s;hrow;</L>
<L>At my Noddle the Pipe and the Flaggon &s;he &s;ends:</L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You may &s;ee what ,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<L>All Winter betimes I am forced to ri&s;e</L>
<L>For to make her a Fire and Caudle likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>Which I bring her each morning with care to her Bed,</L>
<L>Which perhaps in her Pa&s;&s;ion &s;he'll &s;ling at my Head:</L>
<L>This I often have had for to make me amends.</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You may &s;ee what,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>She &s;et me one morning to hang on the Pot</L>
<L>And I needs mu&s;t acknowledge I clearly forgot</L>
<L>For to put in the Water, but &s;aunter'd about</L>
<L>Till the Porridge-Pot bottom was clearly burnt out:</L>
<L>At my Noddle the Ladle &s;he pre&s;ently &s;ends,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You may &s;ee what it is to be marry'd, dear Friends.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>One morning &s;he left me at home to be Nur&s;e,</L>
<L>While &s;he walk'd with her Gallant, whom often I'd cur&s;e:</L>
<L>Now as I was fate rocking, and winding of Silk,</L>
<L>Oh the Cat came and eat up the Child's &s;ugar'd Milk:</L>
<L>But when this &s;ad Di&s;a&s;&s;ter was known to my Wife,</L>
<L>Hone&s;t People I thought 'twould have co&s;t me my Life.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Now when &s;he had thra&s;h'd me, up Stairs &s;he did go</L>
<L>With her Gallant, and charg'd me to tarry below;</L>
<L>But I cunningly follow'd, up Stairs I did creep,</L>
<L>Ay, and thorough the Key-hole in troth I did peep:</L>
<L>But her Gallant he heard me, and pre&s;ently &s;wore</L>
<L>He wou'd kick me down Stairs, if he came to the Door.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With courage I told him, I fear'd not his Blows,</L>
<L>I wou'd peep through the Key-hole in &s;pite of his No&s;e;</L>
<L>Then the Spark in a Pa&s;&s;ion his Rapier he drew,</L>
<L>Straight away from the Door of the Chamber I flew;</L>
<L>For I knowing young Gallants are de&s;perate Men:</L>
<L>And thought I, &s;hou'd he kill me, 'faith where am I then.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I took her to task when the Gallant was gone,</L>
<L>And I &s;aid, Love con&s;ider but what you have done:</L>
<L>It was all that I &s;aid, when &s;he flew with di&s;dain,</L>
<L>Ay, and call'd me poor Wittal, and Cuckold in grain;</L>
<L>And a three-legged Stool at my Noddle &s;he &s;ends:</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>You may &s;ee what it is to be marry'd, my Friends.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Before any longer this Life I will lead,</L>
<L>I am fully re&s;olv'd to Cha&s;tife her with &s;peed.</L>
<L>With the &s;weet Oil of Holly I'll chafe her proud Hide,</L>
<L>Which will &s;upple and make her a diligent Bride:</L>
<L>And when thus &s;he's reclaim'd, to the World I will tell</L>
<L>How in Love, Peace and Comfort, together we dwell.</L>
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