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FAB. XXXVII. The old Woman and her Maids.
When the shrill Cock told that the morn was nigh,The good-wife calls her maids to Houswifry,
But they too soone awackt the telltale kill,
And now their Dame calls earlyer wth a Bell.
Morall
He who to cure his love to drinking runesContracts a greater evill then he shunes.
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