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- t at his Gate like a Rogue, He'd do to him Lord knows what. Quoth the Wit -- why know you not that? Then, Neighbour, e'en save your Pence, For his Learning is all a Pretence: If he knows not who sh - t----of course, He nothing can know of your Horse. And no Light can his Figures afford, Whose Conjuring's not worth a T---- So as wise our two Clowns came Home, As any who on such Errands roam. _On a Pannel at the Faulcon in _St. Neot_'s _Huntingdonshire_._ My Maidenhead sold for a Guinea, A lac'd Head with the Money I bought; In which I look'd so bonny, The Heart of a Gamester I caught: A while he was fond, and brought Gold to my Box, But at last he robb'd me, and left me the P---- _Underneath._ When you balance Accounts, it sure may be said, You at a bad Market sold your Maidenhead. _The _Inamorato_. In a Window at _Twickenham_._ When dull and melancholy, I rove to charming _Dolly_, Whose Sweetness doth so charm me, And wanton Tricks so warm me, That quite dissolv'd in Love, No Trouble then I prove, But am as truly blest Upon her panting Breast, As if to me she brought All for which _Caesar_ fought: For I, like _Anthony_, With Beauty would be free, Altho' again't shou'd cost The Price of Empire lost. _An _Answer_. In the next Pane._ You sure were full of Folly, When in the Praise of _Dolly_, You wrote your am'rous Ditty, Which sure deserves her Pity, Since plainly it doth prove, Your Brain is crack'd with Love; Who else would talk of giving An Empire for a ---- When Twenty will down } Each for a Silver Crown, } And thank you when they've done } _In a Window. At _Lebeck's-Head_._ If it be true each Promise is a Debt, Then _Celia_ hardly will her Freedom get; Yet she, to satisfy her Debts, desires To yield her Body as the Law requires. _In the _Summer-House_ on _Gray's Inn Terras_._ Who speaks to please in ev'ry Way, And not himself offend, He may begin to work to Day, But Heaven knows when he'll end. _In the same Place._ Dogs on their Masters fawn and leap, And wag their Tails apace, So tho' a Flatterer wants a Tail, His Tongue supplies its Place. _In a Window of the _Rene-Deer-Inn_ at _Bishop's-Strafford_._ He that loves a Glass without a G, Leave out L, and that is he. _Wrote with a Pen
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