AAAAAAA. 6 AAAAAAA The Batchelor's Choice. I m Fain wou'd find a passing good Wife, If I should Marry a Maid that is Fair, With her round cherry Cheeks and her flaxen Hair, Many close Meetings I must forbear, And I'll, &c, If I should Marry a Maid that is Foul, The best of my Pleasure will be but a Scoul, And I'll not be Married yet, yet, yet, And I'll not be Married yet, yet, yet. If I should Marry a Maid that's a Slut, If I should Marry a Maid that's a Fool, And I'll, &c. If I should Marry a Maid that's a Scold, Her Mouth is too little her Tongue for to hold, If I should Marry with one that's a Whore, If I should Marry a Maid that is Proud, If I should Marry a Maid that is meek, I would have a Wife to come at a Call, Else I'll not be Married yet, yet, yet, The The Second Part. F I should go seek the whole World about, IF That labour were lost, I am in great doubt, If I Marry with one that is Young, If I should Marry with one that is Old, If I should Marry with one that is Poor, If I should Marry with one that is Rich, She'll ever upbraid me she brought me too much, And make me her Drudge, but I'll have none such. And I'll, &c. If I should Marry with one that is Blind, All for to seek and worse for to find, I then should have nothing to please my Mind, If I should Marry with one that is Dumb, And I'll not be Married yet, yet, yet, And I'll not be Married yet, yet, yet. If I should Marry with one that is Deaf, To the Jawm of a Chimney spend I my Breath, If I should Marry with one that is Fine, Spend she her own, she shall not spend mine, If I should Marry with one that is Tall, For when I am Married I must be glad, And I'll not be Married yet, yet, yet, Maids that will not when you may, The Power of Verse. HO' thou'rt ugly and Old, THO A damn'd Slut and a Scold, Yet if you will tip me a Guinea; By the help of my Rhimes, Thou shalt have thy Adorers dear Fenny. We Bards have a knack, To turn White into Black, And make Vice seem Vertue, which odd is ; Dubbs a Rebel a Saint, These trick Rhiming Sages, To dress naked Truth in a Fable; And tho' ev'ry story, Out-did Purgatory, They still were believ'd by the Rabble. Pray what was Acteon, But a Sportsman undone by his Chasing; Of whom his Nags fled, But a Jockey quite ruin'd by racing? Medæa, 'tis sung, Could make old Women Young. Tho' she nought but a true waiting-Maid is; Who with Comb of black Lead, With Paint white and Red, With Patch and wash, vamps up grey Ladies. |