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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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Young ladies, I declare, so dressy now they are,
Upon my soul, they spend the cole,
But the skuttle they still wear.

(Speaking).
'Tis the fashion, now, for our beaux to dress in blue, and our ladies in buff.—Observe a beaux with boots to his hips, like a gingerbread cock and breeches at a fair—My dear madam, I love you; but I am half seas over, and that's the reason I just now tumbled into the river.—I had such fun with the mob—I pin'd one cracker to an old woman's wig, and popp'd another into a fat man's pocket.—Away went the jasey! and the fat man hop'd about like a dancing elephant.—Will you marry me? I'm the man for you!—“Oh, dear, sir, you flurry me to such a degree!”—But let me not be too severe upon matrimony; for english wives certainly are the best in the word; bless their little hearts! I wish every one of them to have

Pudding &c.