EBBA 31387
British Library - Roxburghe
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Cock-Lane, Humbug.
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THE town it long has been in pain
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About the phantom in Cock-Lane,
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To find it out they strove in vain
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Not one thing they neglected;
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They searched the bed and room compleat
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To see if there was any cheat,
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While little Miss that looks so sweet,
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Was not the least suspected.
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Then soon the knocking it begun
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And then the scratching it woud come
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Twas pleased to answer any one,
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And that was done by knocking;
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If you was poisond tell us true,
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For yes knock one, for no knock two,
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Then she knockd I tell to you,
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Which needs must making it shock-ing.
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On Friday night as many know,
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A noble Lord did thither go,
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The Ghost its knocking woud not show
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Which made the Guest to mutter:
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They being gone then one was there
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Who always called it my dear,
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Fanny was pleasd tis very clear,
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And then began to flutter.
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The Ghost some Gentlemen did tell,
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If they would go to Clerkenwell,
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Into the Vault where she did dwell,
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That they three knocks should hear sir
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On Monday night away they went,
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The man accusd he was present,
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But all as death it was silent.
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The dell a knock was there sir.
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The Gentlemen returnd again,
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And told young missy flat and plain,
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She was the Agent of Cock-Lane,
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Who knockd and scratchd for Fanny
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Twas false each person did agree,
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Miss beggd to go with her daddy
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And then went into the Country
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To knock and scratch for Fanny.
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