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Song: My lady’s coachman John, being married to her...

by Henry Purcell . A Catch for Three voices , in C major

Text:

My lady’s coachman John, being married to her maid,
her ladyship did hear on’t, and to him thus she said,
“I never had a wench so handsome in my life,
I prithee therefore tell me, how got you such a wife?”
John stared her in the face and answered very blunt,
“E’en as my lord got you,” “How’s that?” “Why, by the cunt.”

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