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Poems on several occasions

By H. Carey. The Third Edition, much enlarged
Carey, Henry (1687?-1743)

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The Disparity of YOUTH and AGE.

What should a merry, airy, lively, youthful, blooming Lass,
Do with a mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, stumbling, fumbling Ass;
Youth and Age but ill agree.
Such a Man's no Match for me:
Coughing, spitting,
Thwarting, twitting,
Ever teazing,
Never pleasing;
Hang his Money, hang his Bags,
Give me Youth, Content and Rags.
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