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A SONG
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Joy to the Bridegroom! fill the Sky
With pleasing sounds of welcome Joy:
Joy to the Bride, may lasting Bliss,
And every Day still prove like this.
Joy to the, &c.
Never were Marriage Joys Divine,
But where two constant Hearts Combine;
He that proves false, himself doth cheat,
Like sick Men tasts, but cannot eat.
He that, &c.
What is a Maiden-head? ah what?
Of which weak Fools so often prate?
'Tis the young Virgin's Pride and Boast,
Yet never was found but when 'twas lost.
'Tis the, &c.
Fill me a Glass then to the brink,
And its Confusion here I'll drink;
And he that baulks the Health I nam'd,
May he die young, and then be D———
And he that, &c.