Scripscrapologia or, Collins's Doggerel Dish Of All Sorts. Consisting of Songs Adapted to familiar Tunes, And which may be sung without the Chaunterpipe of an Italian Warbler, or the ravishing Accompaniments of Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee. Particularly those which have been most applauded in the author's once popular performance, call'd, The Brush. The Gallimaufry garnished with a variety of comic tales, quaint epigrams, whimsical epitaphs, &c. &c. [by John Collins] |
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DOLLY's DILEMMA, A Song. |
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DOLLY's DILEMMA, A Song.
Dapper John making Love to dear Dolly, one Day,
After many Days spent in close Wooing;
Grown impatient at Cupid's best Gambol to play,
And quite sick of sighing and sueing;
After many Days spent in close Wooing;
Grown impatient at Cupid's best Gambol to play,
And quite sick of sighing and sueing;
Quoth he, “My sweet Girl, if I prove it quite plain,
“That the Match is half made up between us,
“Will you still with squeamish Reluctance refrain
“To let Hymen his Aid lend to Venus?”
“That the Match is half made up between us,
“Will you still with squeamish Reluctance refrain
“To let Hymen his Aid lend to Venus?”
“Hymen's Aid,” quoth the Nymph, “may be welcome to you,
“But I own of his Help I'm afraid!
“Yet I'll not be condemn'd for a hard-hearted Jew,
“If you'll prove that the Match is half made.”
“But I own of his Help I'm afraid!
“Yet I'll not be condemn'd for a hard-hearted Jew,
“If you'll prove that the Match is half made.”
“That's my dear little Christian,” reply'd honest Jack,
“As that Promise my Blessing secures,
“For my own Leave to wed and to bed I don't lack,
“So of Course I want nothing but your's.
“As that Promise my Blessing secures,
“For my own Leave to wed and to bed I don't lack,
“So of Course I want nothing but your's.
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“One Party's Consent, out of Two, is full Half,
“Towards making both Parties agreed:”
Dolly fain would have parried the Proof with a Laugh,
But in Honour she could not recede.
“Towards making both Parties agreed:”
Dolly fain would have parried the Proof with a Laugh,
But in Honour she could not recede.
Pledg'd and pawn'd was her Word, so she gave him her Hand,
As her Heart he had long before won:
And the half-made-up Match, though so long at a stand,
Was completed before setting Sun.
As her Heart he had long before won:
And the half-made-up Match, though so long at a stand,
Was completed before setting Sun.
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