Wit and drollery joviall poems / corrected and much amended, with new additions, by Sir J.M. ... Sir W.D. ... and the most refined wits of the age.

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Wit and drollery joviall poems / corrected and much amended, with new additions, by Sir J.M. ... Sir W.D. ... and the most refined wits of the age.
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London :: Printed for Nathanial Brook ...,
1661.
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Humorous poetry, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Wit and drollery joviall poems / corrected and much amended, with new additions, by Sir J.M. ... Sir W.D. ... and the most refined wits of the age." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66741.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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Pedegree.

A Begger got a Bayliff, A Bayliff got a Yeoman, A Yeoman got a Prentice, A Prentice got a Freeman, A Freeman got a Master, And he begot a Tease, And so become a Gentleman, Then a Justice of Peace.
This Justice got a daughter, And she is come to light,

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She stept unto the Court, And there she got a Knight, A Knight got a Lord, A Lord an Earl begot, An Earl got a Duke, This Duke he was a Scot.
This Duke a Prince begot, A Prince of royal hope, He begot the Emperor, The Emperor got the Pope, The Pope got a Bastard, He was a noble spark, He lay with a Nun, And so begot a Clark.
A Clark got a Sexton, A Sexton got a Vicar, A Vicar got a Parson, A Parson got a Vicar, And they were all made Prebends, And so they got a Dean, A Dean got a Bishop, A Bishop got a Quean.
A Quean got five shillings, Five shillings got a smock, That got a Scotch prick, And there he got a pock.

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A Merchant got the pock, And set it in a Ring, And gave it to a Lady, That laid it to her thing.
That gave it to her Page, That gave it to his master, That sent for the Surgeon, And laid to it a plaister. The plaister was too hot, It bred to him much pain, A nach was in his — And so this man —
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