Advice to a Friend to forgo a Common Miss.
To the Scotch Tune, Go, go, Ʋnkind One.
1.
HE's an Ass that loves one,
And will love no more:
If by chance he proves one
True, he'll find a score
London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
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- London drollery, or, The wits academy being a select collection of the newest songs, lampoons, and airs alamode : with several other most ingenious peices [sic] of railery, never before published / by W.H.
- Author
- Hicks, William, fl. 1671.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by F. Eglesfield ...,
- 1673.
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- Songs, English -- Texts.
- English wit and humor.
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Page 105
That are as arrant Starters
As ever trod on Shoe;
To lie and sware,
And speak you fair,
And vow they'l still be true;
Yet promise to another
What they have vow'd to you.
2.
When the Ginneys do appear,
Then their love is shown;
They'l kiss and sing, and dance and swear,
I'm yours, or not my own.
But when the Purse begins to ebb,
Then they will over-flow
In slights and pouts,
And scorns and flouts,
And off their faith will throw,
And to another Cully
Will make a second vow.
3.
Then leave off courting Misses
If you will be free
From Quarrels and Diseases,
And certain Povertio.
Page 106
But if you must a Miss have,
Let it be brisk Wine;
'Twill cure the heart
Of all the smart,
And make the face to shine
With bubles and with Pearls too,
Beyond the Indian Mine.