Volume 5 — A Song in the Innocent Mistress. Set by Mr. John Eccles, Sung by Mrs. Hodgson.
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[Listen]
WHen I languish’d and wish’d you wou’d something bestow, You bad me to give it a Name; But by Heav’n I know it as little as you, Tho’ my Ignorance passes for Shame: You take for Devotion each passionate Glance, And think the dull Fool is sincere; But never believe that I spake in Romance, On purpose to tickle, on purpose, on purpose, On purpose to tickle your Ear: To please me than more, think still I am true, And hug each Apocryphal Text; Tho’ I practice a Thousand false Doctrines on you, I shall still have enough, I shall still have enough, Shall still have enough for the next.