Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.

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Title: Wit restor'd in several select poems not formerly publish't.
Author: Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
Publication: London :: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T. Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet,; 1658.
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Subject terms: Humorous poetry.; Burlesques.
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On a Maid's Legge.

FAir Betty us'd to tuck her coats up high,
That men her foot and leg might soon espy.
Thou hast a pretty legg, (saith one) fair Duck.
Yea, two, (saith she) or else I have ill luck.
They're two indeed, they're twins, I think, quoth he,
They are, and yet they are not, Sir, said she;
They're birth was both at once, I dare be sworn
And yet between them both a man was born.