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Song: As Roger last night to Jenny lay close, he...

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

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As Roger last night to Jenny lay close,
he pulled out his budget and gave her a dose,
the tickling no sooner kind Jenny did find,
but with laughing she purged both before and behind,
“Pox take it,” quoth Roger, he must himself be beside
that gives pills against wind, against tide.

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