A Song in the Innocent Mistress. Set by
Mr. John Eccles, Sung by Mrs. Hodgson.
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WHen I languish’d and wish’d you wou’d something bestow,
You bad me to give it a Name;
But by Heav’n I know it as little as you,
Tho’ my Ignorance passes for Shame:
You take for Devotion each passionate Glance,
And think the dull Fool is sincere;
But never believe that I spake in Romance,
On purpose to tickle, on purpose, on purpose,
On purpose to tickle your Ear:
To please me than more, think still I am true,
And hug each Apocryphal Text;
Tho’ I practice a Thousand false Doctrines on you,
I shall still have enough, I shall still have enough,
Shall still have enough for the next.
VENUS to PARIS in the Prize Musick.
Set by Mr. John Weldon.
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