The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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And ne'er require them again.
Then come away, you wanton wives, That love your pleasures as your lives: To each good woman I'll give two, Or more, if she think them too few. Then would he change his note and sing this following, to the tune of _What care I how fair she be?_[13] Be she blacker than the stock, If that thou wilt make her fair, Put her in a cambric smock, Buy her paint and flaxen hair. One your carrier brings to town Will put down your city-bred; Put her on a broker's gown, That will sell her maiden-head. Comes your Spaniard, proud in mind, He'll have the first cut, or else none: The meek Italian comes behind, And your Frenchman picks the bone. Still she trades with Dutch and Scot, Irish, and the German tall, Till she gets the thing you wot; Then her end's an hospital. |
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