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when you lift a recruit
You take him to the Doctor,
that will end all diſpute.
This brave Lady for honour,
in ſo venturing her life,
The captain thought proper,
and made her his wife;
The bells they rung ſweetly,
and the muſic did play,
And the colonel was Father,
and gave her away.
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GRAGAL MA CHREE.
I Am a young lover that is forely oppreſs’d
Enthrall'd by a far one & can find ⟨reſt⟩
Her name I'll not mention, tho’ wounded I be
By Cupid's kind arrow for Gragal ma Chree.
When firſt I beheld this female moſt ⟨fair,⟩
My eyes were eclips'd by her beauty so rare,
By her killing glances he ſo enchanted me,
In anguiſh I'll languiſh for Gragal ma Chree.
Her lips are like coral, her cheeks like the roſe
Her ſkin is like lillies, and is black as ſloes
She is handſome and proper in every degree,
No female can equal ſweet Gragal ma Chree.
O had I poſſeſſion of Newington more,
With Breakaduff's treaſure, was it ten times more,
And wealth of great Demure, I’ll part with it moſt free,
Diſdaining all riches for Gragal ma Chree.
