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"FAREWELL, MY MISTRESS! I'LL BE GONE!" by ANONYMOUS

Last Line: "AND THEY CALL HER 'SACK,' MY DEAR!"
Subject(s): WOMEN;

Farewell, my Mistress! I'll be gone!
I have friends to wait upon!
Think you, I'll myself confine
To your humours, Lady mine?
No! Your lowering looks do say,
"'Twill be a rainy drinking day;
To the Tavern let's away!"

There have I a mistress got
Cloistered in a Pottle Pot!
Plump and bounding, soft and fair,
Buxom, sweet and debonair;
And they call her "Sack," my Dear! ...



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