The Maidens Frolicksome Undertaking
To Press Twenty Taylors,
With the Success of that Comical Adventure.
To the Tune of, An Orange. Licensed according to Order.
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LAte near Temple-Bar, a Frollick we hear,
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Which many brisk Fellows did put in much fear
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Ten Lasses i'th' Strand, did take it in hand,
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In Seamens disguise, for to Press and Command
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Twenty Taylors.
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Moll, Nelly, and Sue, with Nan, Kate, and Prue,
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Their Hangers put on, with the rest of the Crew,
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And so strait they went, about their intent,
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To Ferret them out of their Garrets, they meant,
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All the Taylors.
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But as they did go, along the back-Row,
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They met with a Snipper that well they did know;
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Moll starts from the rest, and crys Friend ye are prest
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He let fall his Cabbidge, and cry'd by his List,
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I'm a Taylor.
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A Taylor for Sea, he ne'r can fit be,
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He's the ninth of a Man, then pray set me free,
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But this blind excuse, nor the price of his Goose,
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Did not then prevail, for, says Kate, there's much use
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For a Taylor.
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Tho' it's plain he's no Man, yet stitch well he can,
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There's need on't at Sea, then you Rascal come on,
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Then trembling full low, himself he did throw
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At their feet, and did beg that they pitty would show
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To a Taylor.
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Pray pitty my tears, and my Bodkin and Shears,
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With all the good Cabbidge I've stole many years;
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Talk not of the Sea, I pray set me free,
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For when did you hear that to Fight did agree
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With a Taylor.
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But nothing avail'd, away he was hail'd,
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Nor long of more Taylors this buxome Crew fail'd,
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Six more they did seize, at Small-beer and Cheese,
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For well out of Cowcumber-time that agrees
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With the Taylors.
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At sight of this Crew, some fainted, some flew,
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The Room it was scented, but all would not do;
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You Soundrels, quoth Nell, date you to rebell,
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Come along, and with that they to Cudgelling fell
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Of the Taylors.
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They cry'd out full sore, they had Children store,
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And Wives to maintain, but quoth Molly give o're;
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'Tis better be brave, than sit like a Slave,
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Cross-legg'd on a Shopboard; but this sorrow gave
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To the Taylors.
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These once away sent, to th' Garrets they went,
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And tho' they saw none, yet to search they were [bent]
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And feeling i th' Shreads, they found out their [beds]
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In Hell then for dear were hidden the Heads
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Of the Tayl[ors.]
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Then out from the Raggs, a Taylor each drags
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O some by the Heels, and some by the Craggs,
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And cry'd out away, ye Rascals, to Sea,
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Fight for King and Queen, but this did not agree,
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With the Tayl[ors.]
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Thus eight more they got, to make up the shot,
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Crys Sue, in the Chimney as yet we look'd not;
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This made them look there, when strid on the B[?]
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A cock-horse were riding three (half dead with fear)
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Of the Tayl[ors.]
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These being thus Prest, they lookt for the rest,
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And quickly they pull'd 'um all out of their Nest
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Compell'd them to go, with Kick and with blow,
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Some cry'd and some pist, and yet all would not d[?]
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For the Taylo[rs.]
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They stood not to chuse, nor none did refuse,
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Monsieur, Shon-a-Morgan, & Teague they did noo[?]
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And more in the Trap, these Females did snap,
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Until they the Twenty had fairly made up
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Of all Taylors.
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