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Magdalene College - Pepys
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Age renewed by wedlock;
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The Old Womans Commendations of Her young Husband .
Tune , A Begging I will go, etc.
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(1)
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COme all ye Ancient Women
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Of Fourscore Years and Ten,
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But Marry with young Men
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And you'l all be young again:
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For a Lusty Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Will make an old Woman grow young .
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(2)
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Full fourscore Years and Seven
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I was Before I Wed,
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And was by Pains and Aiches,
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Compel'd to keep my Bed:
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But a Youthful Bedfollow vigorous and strong,
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Has made an old Woman grow young .
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(3)
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He has a curious Correl
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As long as both my Thumbs,
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With two Bells at the end on't
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With which he rubs my Gums:
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Thus a Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Will make an old Woman grow young .
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(4)
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Let every ancient Good-Wife
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Of such a Husband boast,
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He's brought me to my feeling
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Which I before had lost:
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Thus a Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Will make an old Woman grow young .
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(5)
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When they to Bed had put me
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That he might dig the further,
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I Beg'd my Friends assistance
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To lay me in right order:
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That my Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Might make an old Woman grow young .
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(6)
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I was a perfect Vergin
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For when he danc'd his Jigg,
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Tho' I'm old enough to be a Sow
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Yet I squeek'd like any Pigg:
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That my Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Might make an old Woman grow young. (7)
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I do do protest he Kisses
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Each Night like any wild,
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Insomuch that I know not
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But I may be with Child:
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For a Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Has made an old Woman grow young .(8)
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From Bedrid, Cough, and Dropsy,
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I now can go abraod,
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And am resolv'd to dress me
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In Tower and Commode:
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For a Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Has made an old Woman grow young .(9)
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My Husband is a Barbar
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His Washbals are admir'd,
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And I have got a Bason.
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Where he Ladders whilst he's tyr'd:
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Thus a Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Has made an old Woman grow young .(10)
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Why therefore should old Women
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Be so despised by Men,
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Since by your kind assistance
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We can grow young again.
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For a Youthful Bedfellow vigorous and strong,
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Has made an old Woman grow young .
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LONDONT, Printed by J.W. in White-Friars Gateway , 1693.
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