The Crafty maid's approbation wherein she shows either black or brown tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none their fortunes is still to lie alone : to the tune of, A fig for France.

The Crafty maid's approbation wherein she shows either black or brown tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none their fortunes is still to lie alone : to the tune of, A fig for France.

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The Crafty maids Approbation.

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The Crafty maids Approbation.

Wherein she showes either black or brown

Tis money makes them strait go down,

When pritty girls that gold has none

Their Fortunes still to lye alone.

To the Tune of, A Fig for France.

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D [...]w near to me young girls so [...]ine

[...] means & Portions like to mine▪

If you'l but hear what I have pen'd

I will make you smile before I end:

I once had a sweet-heart fair and young

Tho now from me he's fled and gone;

But I'le [...]ell you a very good reason why

'Twas money did part my Love and I.

When first to me a wooing he came

He did [...]re to know my name,

I told [...]n my means was small

He said he valued none at all:

So that my [...] invour he could win

He valued nothing else a pin,

But now he's gone and I know why

'Twas money &c.

Yet for thrée years his love stood fe [...]

And he vow'd for ever it should last

But when my frinds spoke of the [...]

Then he was for another dame:

Except so much money they'd give

No wife for him I must not be:

His words he clearly did deny

So money did part, &c.

Thus maids may see so may I too

It is for money that young men [...]

Tho great store of love they do prete [...]

Yet mark what falls out in the end▪

When they find your Portions small

Like to a snake from you they'l cra [...]

And to another straight they'l hey

So money did part, &c.

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Yet had I a head like a horse

Or a body as thick as a Mil-po [...]

So but bags came tumbling i [...],

Then my favour every fooll w [...]' [...] win:

Or was I long-snouted like a Sow

Or else crookt backt like our fine Cow

[...]ave at her then these boys would cry

She's money enough, and what care I.

Young men don't blush you know 'tis true

For let her name be Mary or Sue,

The she was blabber-lipt also blear-eyd

Yet money all those faults will hide

Nay were she the nast [...]est dingest slut

That a man [...]urst not after her crak a Nut

Had she but money house or land

I'me sure she would not stick long a hand

Yet we whose Portions are but small

Let us not be dismaid at all

Neither let us greive, lament no: swound

For beauties worth a thousand pound:

Hangt though my first true love be gone

I've the same face for another man.

And I'le prove honest till I dye

Tho money, &c.

If two young men talk of a wench

As they do sit of an Ale-bench

She's a good huswife the one replyes

But has she money the other tryes:

If she has none she's not for me

Give me the Cash hang huswifrey

I love to finger that for why

Twas money did part my Love and I.

By this young girls may plainly see

By this young girls may plainly [...]

How deceitful these young-men be

They'l search a maid from top to toe

Till all her secrets they do know:

Then if her means don't please his mind

He quickly can turn like the wind

I must have a wife with more he'l e [...]

So money, &c.

Such affection did that young [...]

That often called [...] his Dear

Such vows & [...] made tis known

But now he doth [...] quit [...] [...]:

But since he's gone [...]

Ile slight him more than he [...]

Ile ne'r lament nor [...] nor [...]

Tho money, &c.

I am full glad we parted in truth

For since I hear he's a crose-grain'd youth;

But had he prov'd true though ne'r so [...]re

In wealth or woe [...]'de bear a share

But now i'me frée i'le let that [...]lide

And ne'r think more to be a [...]ri [...]e

Ther's nothing like to liberty.

Since money, &c.

Vhus have I told young maidens all

How the weakest must go to the wall

But she that is full & her purse well strung

She shall have swéet-hearts come [...]ing don [...]

Its no matter for breeding nor sence

So she has but, Cash he'l have the wenth

Black nor brown he looks not o'th [...]ye

'Twas money did part my Love & I.

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Printed for J. Williamson at tho Sun & Bible upon London Bridge.

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The Crafty maid's approbation wherein she shows either black or brown tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none their fortunes is still to lie alone : to the tune of, A fig for France.

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1685

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— The Crafty maid's approbation wherein she shows either black or brown tis mony makes them straight go down, when pritty girls that gold has none their fortunes is still to lie alone : to the tune of, A fig for France.,

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