ROGER and MARY:
Or, the loving Couple in a great Engagement.
Rogers true love to his Mary
Did not in the least miscarry;
He Souldier-like besiegd and enterd,
And had the prize for which he venturd.
Tune of, Moggies Jealousie.
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AS Roger and Mary were toyling
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The length of a hot Summers day
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A Rakeing and swetting and broyling,
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And shaking and turning the Hay,
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Quoth Roger, I prethee dear Mary
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Lets lay us down under this Coek
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For I do begin to be weary
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And there let us take a sweet nog
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But first they examind the bottle
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Before they began to repose
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And Mary was scratching his noddle
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And he was got under her cloths:
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Good faith quoth he Mary ile tell thee
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Tis woundy full hot in this place
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For thou art ene all of a jelly
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As plain as the nose on my face.
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Quoth Mary to help out the matter
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The weather is hot you know that
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Besides I am plumper and fatter
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Then Sarah that little starvd Rat
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In all the hard Frost I can tell thee
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The very same slippery place
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Was never without a great jelly
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As plain as the nose on your face.
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I thought the low Countries, quoth he then
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Was all the time frozen ile swear:
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But you were mistaken, quoth she then,
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The devil a Frost ere came there,
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when all elsewhere was frozen from rowing
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And in a most pittiful case,
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That alwaies was open and flowing,
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As plain as the nose on your face.
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Im sure yet (quoth Hodge its all Boggy,
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A Quagmire like shivering ground,
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And still it is fullsome and foggy,
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And forever the place may be drownd.
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Quoth she, if a Sot have commanding
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The Country may come to disgrace,
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And drownd for a time notwithstanding.
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As plain as the Nose on your face.
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As all this time Mary was gropeing
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And fumbling about Rogers Head,
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The sluces began for to open,
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The gates of themselves they did spread:
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Gods bobs then quoth Robin ile tell it
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And swear to it in any place,
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The low Countries drownd, I do smell it
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As plain as the Nose on my face.
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Then Roger his courage did rally,
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And manfully fell to his work,
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And at the main breach made a sally,
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And plyd on his thrust like a Turk;
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But Roger alas was confounded,
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The breach was so deep at that place,
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That poor Roger quickly was drowned,
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As plain as the Nose on his face.
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When Mary had found the disaster,
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That Roger could do no more work,
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For Hodge decayd faster and faster,
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And sneaking away he did lurk:
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For which she was wondrous civil,
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She would not the Lobcock disgrace,
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But bid him go pack to the Devil
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As plain as the Nose on his face.
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