Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by John S. Farmer
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FRISKY MOLL'S SONG
[1724] [By J. HARPER, and sung by Frisky Moll in JOHN THURMOND'S _Harlequin Sheppard_ produced at Drury Lane Theatre]. I From priggs that snaffle the prancers strong, [1] To you of the _Peter_ Lay, [2] I pray now listen a while to my song, How my _Boman_ he kick'd away. [3] II He broke thro' all rubbs in the whitt, [4] And chiv'd his darbies in twain; [5] But fileing of a rumbo ken, [6] My _Boman_ is snabbled again. [7] III I _Frisky Moll_, with my rum coll, [8] Wou'd Grub in a bowzing ken; [9] But ere for the scran he had tipt the cole, [10] The _Harman_ he came in. [11] IV A famble, a tattle, and two popps, [12] |
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