Iv

I could not part with her, d'ye see So I tells Moll to stop her snivel; "Your panting bubs and glist'ning eye Just make me love you like the divil." "Vhy, then," says she, "come tip's your dad, And let us take a drap of gin, And may I choke with hard-roed shad If I forsake my Joe Herring." Four a shilling, etc.

[1: mouth; silk handkerchief] [2: kiss] [3: talk like that] [4: fought] [5: eyes] [6: acted strangely] [7: be off] [8: took as a mistress] [9: gaol] [10: walk] [11: crying] [12: paps] [13: shake hands]

MY MUGGING MAID [Notes] [1826]

[By JAMES BRUTON. Universal Songster, iii. 103].