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THE OLD WOMAN’S WISH
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THE OLD WOMAN’S WISH

[c. 1684]

[A Broadside Song; music in Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707), iii. 101].

As I went by an Hospital, I heard an Old Woman cry,Kind Sir, quoth she, be kind to me, once more before I Die,And grant to me those Joys, that belong to Woman-kind,And the Fates above reward your Love, To an old Woman Poor and Blind.
I find an itching in my Blood, altho’ it be something Cold,Therefore Good Man do what you can, to comfort me now I’m Old.  And Grant to me those Joys, &c.
Altho’ I cannot see the Day, nor never a glance of light;Kind Sir, I swear and do declare, I honour the Joys of Night:  Then grant to me those Joys, &c.
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