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Icame, call'd, cull'd, toy'd, trifled, kissed,
"Captain Cornu-cope I wished.
Thence to Bainbrig, where the River
From his Channel seems to sever:
To Maidenly John I forthwith hasted,
And his best Provision tasted:
Th' Host I had (a thing not common)
Seemed neither Man nor Woman.
Thence to * Askrig, Market noted,
But no handsomeness about it;
Neither Magistrate nor Mayor
Ever were elected there:
Here poor People live by Knitting,
To their Trading, breeding fitting.
Thence to † Hardraw, where's hard Hunger,
Barren Cliffs and Clints of Wonder;
Never here Adonis lived,
Unless in Cole's Harbour hived:
Inns are nasty, dusty, fusty,
Both with Smoke and Rubbish musty.
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