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Page 23:-
Thence to Donc'ster who'll believe it?
Both a Light-one and a Levite
There I viewed; too, too aged,
Yet to love so far engaged,
That on earth she only wished
To be painted, pricked, kissed.
Thence to * Aberford, whose Beginning
Came from buying Drink with Pinning:
Poor they are, and very needy,
Yet of Liquor very greedy:
Had they never so much Plenty,
Belly'd make their Purses empty.
Thence to † Wetherb where an apt one
To be Punk unto a Captain,
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At such time as we sojourned in this poor Village, it
chanced that a certain Pinner, and one of the choicest of
all his Flock, being choaked with Pin-dust, died; to whose
Memory we find this Epitaph recorded:
--- O cruel Death!
To robe this Man of Breath,
Who, while he liv'd, in scraping of a Pin,
Made better Dust than thou hast made of him.
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†
Near Horn-Alley, in a Garden,
A Wench more wanton than Kate Arden,
Sojourns, one that scorns a Waist-coat,
Wooing Clients with her Basket.
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