Occasions Off-spring Or Poems upon Severall Occasions: By Mathew Stevenson |
Alice Goffe. A poore woman taken stealing soape.
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Alice Goffe. A poore woman taken stealing soape.
Why how now woman? what's the newes? belikeYou serve'd the grocer but a slippery trick.
T'was very cheap, nay marry you must thrive,
If wee pay ten, & you get under five.
But stay they say the grocer turn'd his eyes,
And you stole, both the custome, and excise:
And well enough you did, but a rope
The mischeife lyes, you should have left the soap.
You made wash way with't, being but a reach,
But have a care, ith end 'tmay cost a streatch.
You know the broverb, ti's as true as old,
If the one chance to slip, t'hother, will hold.
Alas you never could have stoll'ne a badder,
Commoditie, Sope brings you to the ladder.
You think to have't with a wet finger, but
A cleanly theife had better be a slut.
Come, Come, stay the hoggs leisure pray, I hope
As good as you doth wash with Lincolneshrie sope.
If you steale sope to make your clothes so fine,
Youle bring your selfe, as well as them, to th' line.
Yet I confesse, twas pittie goody Goffe,
Stealing good soap, you came no cleanlyer of.
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