A Song. Set by Mr. Pelham Humphreys.
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A Wife I do hate,
For either she’s False, or she’s Jealous;
But give me a Mate,
Who nothing will ask us or tell us:
She stands at no Terms,
Nor Chaffers by way of Indenture:
Or Loves for the Farms,
But takes the kind Man at a Venture.
If all prove not right,
Without an Act, Process or Warning,
From Wife for a Night,
You may be divorc’d the next Morning,
Where Parents are Slaves,
Their Brats can’t be any other;
Great Wits and great Braves,
Have always a Punk to their Mother.
A SONG.
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