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MAIDEN'S REQUEST by SAMUEL LOVER

First Line: I'LL TELL YOU A STORY THAT'S NOT IN TOM MOORE
I'LL tell you a story that's not in Tom Moore:-
Young Love likes to knock at a pretty girl's door:
So he call'd upon Lucy-'twas just ten o'clock-
Like a spruce single man, with a smart double knock.


Now a hand-maid, whatever her fingers be at,
Will run like a puss when she hears a rat-tat:
So Lucy ran up-and in two seconds more
Had question'd the stranger and answer'd the door.


The meeting was bliss; but the parting was woe;
For the moment will come when such comers must go:
So she kiss'd him, and whisper'd-poor innocent thing-
The next time you come, love, pray come with a ring.




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