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A collection of comic songs

written, Compil'd, Etch'd and Engrav'd, by J. Robertson; and sung by him At the theatres Nottingham, Derby, Stamford, Halifax, Chesterfield, and Redford

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What subject shall I prove? must it satire be, or love?
Why, satire best will stand the test,
All my eye is modern love, sir.

(Speaking).
Love puts me in mind of honesty, for it is much talk'd of, and little understood—An Englishman in love, amuses himself with the blue devils, and an Irishman with black-strap; a Dutchman in love, is as cold as a confectioner's ice-house, and a Spaniard as hot as a grill'd devil; a poet in love, rhymes away his soul, a musician fiddles away his soul, a lawyer pleads away his soul, and a love-sick doctor physics away his soul.—By the bye, a doctor must be sick indeed, to take his own physic.—In love there is nothing better to prescribe than—

Pudding &c.