An Excellent new Song, Called, TheYoung-Mans Answer To the MAIDS Garden of TYME,
Let no Young-maidens shew their proud disdain,
In slighting Lovers when they're not to blame,
Least by their haughty Pride as I may tell,
They slip their Youth, and so lead Apes in Hell.
To a pleasant New Tune.
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MAids that are fair and young,
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why should you thus complain,
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Against a Batchellors smooth tongue
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when Love is all their aim.
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If we should curse or swear,
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or surly to you be,
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O then you justly might forbear
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a Young-mans company,
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You say a young man went
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into your Garden fine,
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And there unto your discontent
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he pluckt up all your time.
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I blame him for the same,
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he might have spared some,
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Or for the time that he did take,
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plant others in the room.
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Come pritty Lass I pray
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let me your Garden view,
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And what fine flowers you do want,
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ile plant them o'er a new.
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And if you'l try me once,
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I doubt not but you'l say,
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I thank you heartily young man,
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pray come another day.
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And in your Garden fine
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a Fountain there does flow,
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With pritty bushes all a-round,
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that Fountain too does grow.
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Fair Maiden let me in,
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and then you need not fear,
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But I the bushes fine will trim,
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your Fountain too will clear.
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And if your time I take,
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ile give you in return,
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Cornations of the better sort.
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and Flowers of the Sun.
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And for your Fountain too,
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thus further I can tell,
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Ile put in pritty Fishes there,
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will please you wondrous well,
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And in this Pond they'll breed,
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for to increase your store,
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and if you once but let me in,
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you'l nere deny me more.
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at length the young Maid then
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consented to my mind,
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But said withal, her heart should break
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if I should prove unkind.
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When I came to the Garden-door,
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said she you'l me undo,
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and steal away my precious time,
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and leave me nought but Rue.
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No no, then I reply'd,
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my pritty Maid ne're fear,
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For now the Bargain is fast ty'd,
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ile stay from Year to Year.
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Your Fountain ile new stock,
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your Garden ile new plant;
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There's nothing that is requisite,
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my pritty Maid shall want.
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Now maids be ruled by me,
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nere use Young-men unkind,
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But take the first that comes to hand,
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if he be to your mind.
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