Our house has suffered in the common woe,

We have been troubled with Scotch rebels too.

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Our brethren are from Thames to Tweed departed, }

And of our sisters, all the kinder-hearted }

To Edinburgh gone, or coached, or carted. }

With bonny bluecap there they act all night

For Scotch half-crown, in English three-pence hight.

One nymph, to whom fat Sir John Falstaff's lean,

There with her single person fills the scene.