EBBA 22083
Magdalene College - Pepys
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The Denying Lady: OR, A Travellers Frolick with a Woman that Reply'd no to all Questions and Discourses put to Her.
Tune of, I marry and thank you too. Licensed according to Order.
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AS I was upon the way,
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a Lady by me did go;
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I asked her what time of day,
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her answer to me was no.
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2.
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Concluding she did not hear,
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I ask'd her how far to Bow;
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Instead of saying far or near,
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her answer to me was no.
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3.
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Her humour methought was strange
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I wou'd not be baffled so;
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Madam will you a Kiss exchange?
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her answer it still was no.
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4.
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She smil'd as she spoke to me,
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or else my Cake had been Dough;
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Will you said I, then angry be,
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her answer it still was no.
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5.
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Encourag'd by this Reply,
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I on with my Tail did go;
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Won't you refuse my Company?
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her answer it still was no.
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6.
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Thus I discover'd the way;
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her humour better to know;
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Will you Loves precepts disobey?
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her answer it still was no.
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7.
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I offer'd her thewn my hand,
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she took it with pleasing show;
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Will you a Lovers wish withstand?
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her answer it still was no.
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8.
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If I shou'd a Favour crave,
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you wou'd not offended grow;
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Or shall I not your Anger have,
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her answer it still was no.
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9.
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Won't you be averse that we,
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together shou'd walk to Bow;
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Or sit a while beneath yon Tree?
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her answer it still was no.
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10.
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The Tree was nearest by much,
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and thither we chose to go;
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Will you your sweet embraces grutch
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her answer to me was no.
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11.
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I tumbl'd her gently down,
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and pleas'd her fancy I trow;
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For she gave me full twenty pou,
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her answer no more was no.
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12.
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I rally'd my Forces then,
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and bravely attacqu'd my Froe;
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She swore I was the best of men,
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her answer no more was no.
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13.
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I askt her House and Name,
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which no Body here shall know;
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She frankly did declare the same,
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her answer no more was no.
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14.
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We oft repeated our sport,
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we were not Idle or slow;
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What e're I beg'd of her in short,
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her answer no more was no.
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Printed by and for A. Milbourn[,] at the Stationers- Arms in Green- Arbor.
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