Volume 5 — A Song. Set by Mr. Pelham Humphreys.
Reading edition
[Listen]
A Wife I do hate, For either she’s False, or she’s Jealous; But give me a Mate, Who nothing will ask us or tell us: She stands at no Terms, Nor Chaffers by way of Indenture: Or Loves for the Farms, But takes the kind Man at a Venture. If all prove not right, Without an Act, Process or Warning, From Wife for a Night, You may be divorc’d the next Morning, Where Parents are Slaves, Their Brats can’t be any other; Great Wits and great Braves, Have always a Punk to their Mother.
