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<STC T="W">U96</STC>
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<VID>182094</VID>
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<HEAD>The Unthankful Servant: OR, A Scolding Match between Two <HI>CRACKS</HI> of the <HI>TOWN, <HI>Margery Merrythought,</HI> and <HI>Nancy</HI> her Mi&s;tre&s;s, who taught her her Trade. As they happened to meet near the <HI>Piazza</HI>'s in <HI>Covent-Garden.</HI></HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of <HI>If Love's a &s;weet Pa&s;&s;ion.</HI></OPENER>
<P>Licen&s;ed according to Order.</P>
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<LG N="1">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<L>WEll met, my dear Si&s;ter, you're grown very &s;trange,</L>
<L>For tho' every night thro' the City I range,</L>
<L>I have never beheld you this &s;ix Weeks or more;</L>
<L>Have you &s;uch a full Trade at your Beldams own door,</L>
<L>Without taking of pains for to walk too and fro?</L>
<L>It is well for you <HI>Margery,</HI> if it be &s;o.</L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<L>Why <HI>Nancy</HI> what makes you di&s;cour&s;e at this rate,</L>
<L>It is very well known, that I ne'er want a Mate;</L>
<L>I have Lawyers, young Merchants, fine Sparks of the Town,</L>
<L>That I need not go &s;laving, and trudge up and down,</L>
<L>'Tis enough for &s;uch threadbare poor Hou&s;ewives as you,</L>
<L>To go crui&s;ing about for a Te&s;ter or two.</L>
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<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<L>You are but a Strumpet, your Friend to degrade,</L>
<L>Pray remember la&s;t Winter I learn'd you your Trade;</L>
<L>And altho' you have had greater Fortune than I,</L>
<L>Yet a Friend you have found me, you cannot deny;</L>
<L>When I took you with nothing both ragged and poor,</L>
<L>Nay, and lent you the Topping &amp; Gown which you wore.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<L>But Mi&s;tre&s;s, quoth <HI>Margery,</HI> be not &s;o hot,</L>
<L>For the u&s;e of your Cloaths, you had half what I got,</L>
<L>Which amounted &s;ometimes to a Crown in a day;</L>
<L>Therefore I to my Grief did &s;ufficiently pay</L>
<L>For the u&s;e of your Topping, black Patches and Fans,</L>
<L>And the be&s;t of my Work you took out of my hands.</L>
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<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<L>You are but a Hu&s;&s;y for telling me &s;o,</L>
<L>They were none but my Quarterly Cullies you know;</L>
<L>Hone&s;t <HI>Thomas</HI> the Barber, and <HI>Robin</HI> the Cook;</L>
<L>Not a penny or farthing of Money I took;</L>
<L>But I tru&s;ted till they did their Wages receive,</L>
<L>And at this I was told, You did con&s;tantly grieve.</L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>VI.</HEAD>
<L>'Tis fal&s;e: pray remember the Coun&s;ellor's Clark,</L>
<L>Which I pick'd up my &s;elf near the <HI>Strand</HI> in the dark,</L>
<L>Then I brought him home, thinking no harm I declare,</L>
<L>I agreed for a Guinea, he liked my Ware:</L>
<L>But you ogled him up to your Chamber above;</L>
<L>Thus I lo&s;t a good Booty, a Pox of your Love.</L>
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<LG N="7">
<HEAD>VII.</HEAD>
<L>The rea&s;on of that I will pre&s;ently clear,</L>
<L>He had been my own Cully full three or four year;</L>
<L>He gives freely two Guineys, you bargain'd for one,</L>
<L>Now I then under&s;tanding &s;treight what you had done,</L>
<L>I endeavour'd to get him from you in a trice,</L>
<L>I being re&s;olved to keep up the Price.</L>
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<LG N="8">
<HEAD>VIII.</HEAD>
<L>But how did you keep up the price, when you brought</L>
<L>Home a Taylor, who gave you no more than a Groat?</L>
<L>It is very well known I ne'er wrought at that rate,</L>
<L>I would lye &s;till a Month e'er a penny I'd bate</L>
<L>Of a Guinea, and that &s;hall be hone&s;tly pay'd,</L>
<L>It is &s;uch Jilts as you that have run down the Trade.</L>
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<HEAD>IX.</HEAD>
<L>You &s;ee my rich Topping both gaudy and gay,</L>
<L>I am Coach'd from a Tavern, a Ball, or a Play;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t you here in a Tawdry Dre&s;s walk the &s;treet,</L>
<L>And are glad of a 'Prentice, or whom you can meet;</L>
<L>I'll not &s;pend my Breath on you, and therefore adieu</L>
<L>'Tis a Scandal for me to &s;tand talking to you.</L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>P. Brooksby, J. Deacon , J. Blare,</HI> and <HI>J. Back.</HI></P>
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