. Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set ... now I see no Remedy, But I must needs complainOn him you know, that wrought this Woe, In England or in Spain. One Skimington about doth run, In City and in Town,Come Man and Child with Spear and Shield, And help to beat him down. And you good Wives, bring out your Knives, And cut out both his Stones ;And two or three then may agree, To break some of his Bones
. Wit and mirth: or, Pills to purge melancholy; being a collection of the best merry ballads and songs, old and new. Fitted to all humours, having each their proper tune for either voice, or instrument: most of the songs being new set ... now I see no Remedy, But I must needs complainOn him you know, that wrought this Woe, In England or in Spain. One Skimington about doth run, In City and in Town,Come Man and Child with Spear and Shield, And help to beat him down. And you good Wives, bring out your Knives, And cut out both his Stones ;And two or three then may agree, To break some of his Bones. With 64 Songs Compleat, With Rakes and Reels, ond Oven-Peels,With Mawkin and with Flayl; With Whips and Slings, and other things,vTo beat him Top and Tail. Then let him run to Islington, Or else into the Vyes,Where two or three they may agree To pick out both his Eyes. Then let him fly to Coventry, Or else to London-stone,And like a wretch in Middlesex, There let him make his Moan. All Marryd Men that see him then,Will shake their Heads, and say, He shall have neither Meat nor Drink,But let him march away. Then all the Bells in London TownShall ring both fine and brave, When they have buryd Skimington,And laid him in his Pleasant and Divertive, 65 A Song.
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