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Huntington Library - Miscellaneous
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The ORANGE.
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1 GOod people I pray
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Throw the Orange away,
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Tis a very sowre Fruit, and was first brought in play
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When good Judith Wilk
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In her pocket brought Milk,
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And with Cushings and Warming-pans labourd to bilk
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This same Orange.
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2. When the Army retreats
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And the Parliament sits
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To Vote our K------ the true use of his Wits:
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Twill be a sad means
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When all he obtains
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Is to have his Calves-head dressd with other mens Brains,
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And an Orange.
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3. The sins of his Youth
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Made him think of one Truth,
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When he spawld from his Lungs, and bled twice at the mouth,
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That your fresh sort of Food
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Does his Carcass more good,
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And the damnd thing that Curd his putrefied blood
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Was an Orange.
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4. This hopeful young Son
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Is surely his own
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Because from an O------ it cryd to be gone
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But the Hereticks say
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He was got by Da------
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For neither K------ nor the Nuncio dare stay
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Near an Orange.
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5. Since Lewis was Cut
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From his Breech to the Gut,
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France fancies an open-arse delicate Fruit;
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We wiser than so
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Have two strings to our bow
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For weve a good Q------ thats an open-arse too,
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And an Orange.
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6. Till Nanny writ much
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To the Rebels the D------
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Her Mother, good Woman, nere owd her a grutch
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And the box of the Ear
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Made the matter appear,
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That the only foul savour the Q------ could not bear
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Was an Orange.
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7. An honest old Peer
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That forsook God last year,
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Pulld off all his Plaisters, and Armd for the War;
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But his Arms would not do,
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And his Aches throbbd too,
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That he wishd his own Pox and his M------s too
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On an Orange.
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8. Old Tyburn must groan,
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For Jeffreys is known
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To have perjurd his Conscience to marry his Son;
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And D------s Cause
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Will be tryd by Just Laws,
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And Herbert must taste a most damnable Sauce
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With an Orange.
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9. Lobb, Pen, and a score
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Of those honest men more
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Will find this same Orange exceedingly sowre;
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The Q------ to be seizd
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Will be very ill pleasd,
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And so will K------ Pippin, too dry to be squeezd
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By an Orange.
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