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The Songs, &c. in the Cabinet of fancy: or evening exhibition

As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-market [by G. A. Stevens]

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AIR IV.

[COME all ye beaux]

[I]

COME all ye beaux,
In fine rich clothes,
Who tradesmen are trepanning,
And you shall own,
What's often known,
Your honours want japanning.

II

Ye gamesters great,
Who ride in state,
Who're rich in many manors,
As my black ball
Can cover all,
Let me japan your honours.

III

Kept misses fine
In di'monds shine,
And scheme to take each man in;
T'cover a crack,
They sometimes lack
A little of my japanning.

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IV

I hold it good,
Who sticks i'th' mud,
Should use my fine black ball, sirs;
Since now-a-days
We've dirty ways,
Ye want japanning all, sirs.