The Politick Maids Device;
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The Maidens Distrust in CUPIDs Play.
Here Counsel is to all the rest,
Of Maidens fair, to chuse the best;
And let the worst of Young-men stay a while,
They are apt young Maidens to beguile:
But if maidens will be rul'd by she,
She'l fit them in their own Degree:
And make them spend their breath and strength,
He should be an honest man that gain'd a Wench.
The Tune is, What shall a Young-woman do with an Old-man, Or, Digby's Farewell.
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ALL Maidens come hither and hearken a while,
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I'le sing you a song that will make you to smile,
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And be careful I say when you go to be wed,
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What man you do marry, and who you bring to your bed:
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And be wise in your chusing great comfort you'l have
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Or else you'r undone if you match with a Knave,
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Keep Liberty still maids, and be more wise,
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Young-men they are apt for to feed you with lyes.
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There's many a young man when he comes to wooe,
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Will tell you fair tales before he does go,
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And call you his honey, his joy, and his dear,
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When his heart is as false as an old rotten Pair:
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But be merry and wise, this counsel is brave,
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Or else you'r undone if you match with a Knave,
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Keep liberty, etc.
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There's many a young-man will swear and will lye,
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Has caus'd many a maiden to weep and to cry,
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And brought them to sorrow all the days of their life:
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She had very hard fortune to be such a mans wife:
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Some men cannot afford their own wives a good word,
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Nor scarcely afford them bread to put in their head,
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Keep liberty, etc.
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There's hardly a young maiden but once in her life,
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That has a desire for to be made a Wife,
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If iortune be so that she meet with a Cheat,
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O then she's undone and her sorrows are great,
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All the days of her life then she must be a slave,
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But Maidens be wise and take heed of a Knave.
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Keep liberty, etc.
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But a man of good breeding or a man of good stock,
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If he come in good sadness will scorn for to mock,
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But these white-Liver'd fellows their deceit is much more,
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To undo a maid and to make her his Whore:
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O these are the Blades that will lye, cog, and crave,
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But maidens be wise and take heed of a Knave.
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Keep liberty, etc.
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Young men they will promise you what they will do,
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I cannot deny but some of them are true,
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But where is that man, that a Maiden can trust,
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For one that is true there is twenty unjust:
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A maid she may marry all this I do know,
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And's many times brought to great sorrow and woe.
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Keep liberty, etc.
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There's many a good woman has been brought to decay,
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You cannot deny this, true tis that I say:
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When a Husband delighteth more in a Whore,
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Then in his own wife, that goes very sore:
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Which troubles young Maidens that now are unwed,
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When a woman does bring such a Knave to her Bed.
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Keep liberty, etc.
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Young Maidens be careful, and mind what I say,
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We must not blame all men, for some going astray,
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There's many an honest man in the world to be had,
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You must chuse where the best are there's no more to be sa[id]
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If you marry a good Husband, and miss a foul Knave,
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You'r Crown'd with good fortune, that will be brave.
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Keep liberty, etc.
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Now in the Conclosion Maids be not precise,
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She's a Maiden her self, that this song did devise,
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Young men are so false, that she could not forbear,
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But publish these verses for maids to take care:
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And be merry and wise, when your love he doth crave,
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There's many a good woman undone by a Knave.
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Keep liberty still Maids and be more wise,
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For Young-men are apt for to feed you with lyes.
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