What dost thou at my neighëbourë’s house? Is she so fair? art thou so amoroús? What rown’st 1830 thou with our maid? ben’dicite , Sir oldë lechour, let thy japës 1831 be. And if I have a gossip, or a friend (Withoutë guilt), thou chidest as a fiend, If that I walk or play unto his house. Thou comest home as drunken as a mouse, And preachest on thy bench, with evil prefe: 1832 Thou say’st to me, it is a great mischief To wed a poorë woman, for costáge: 1833 And if that she be rich, of high paráge, 1834 Then say’st thou, that it is a tormentry To suffer her pride and meláncholy. And if that she be fair, thou very knave,

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