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Item: John the Miller

by By Mr. Gillier . For Four voices, in D minor

Song: John asked his landlady, thinking no ill, where...

John ask'd his Landlady thinking no Ill, where he might best set up a Water Mill; The wanton Lady seeing John all alone, return'd this Answer to her Tenant John: Woud'st thou all other thy Mill should disgrace? The 'twixt my Legs will be the fittest Place; for I at Time of Need can from behind, When Water fails before, supply't with Wind.

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