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Hard lingo and din it makes me look thin,
and my garments’ are (illegible text) out of order:
My wife fhe does jib and wallops my hide,
and ten times does make me cry murder.
I've oft heard it fpoke there was virtue in oak
I tried it and found it a folly;
She beat me full fore I was forced to give oer
and never more lift the fhitelah.
Modefty is dead and virtue is (illegible text)
and wifdoms deferted the nation:
The beautiful found of honours (illegible text) down
it filled my poor heart with vexation.
Now my brave boys is the time to be wife
and guard againft female delufion,
For the faireft you fee they create mifery,
and end in great fhame and confufion.
Sampfon was ftrong but by woman was fung
and woman made Soloman fimple.
Both Adam and Eve and Jacob a flave,
and Troy they've made an example.
Had I womans skill (illegible text) the French I would kill
or bring them to a capitalifation.
And with my broad fword would end the
and reconcile every nation.
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