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1667–1745

VERSES MADE FOR FRUIT-WOMEN

Jonathan Swift

Come buy my fine wares, Plums, apples, and pears. A hundred a penny, In conscience too many:

Come, will you have any? My children are seven, I wish them in Heaven; My husband a sot,

With his pipe and his pot, Not a farthing will gain them, And I must maintain them.

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