/ · John S. Farmer’s Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes
My Mugging Maid
My Mugging Maid
1826
By JAMES BRUTON. Universal Songster, iii. 103.
I
Why lie ye in that ditch, so snug,
With s— and filth bewrayed
1 Notes
With hair all dangling down thy lug
2 ear
My mugging maid?
II
Say, mugging Moll, why that red-rag
3 tongue
Which oft hath me dismayed
Why is it now so mute in mag,
4 speech
My mugging maid?
II
Why steals the booze down through thy snout,
5 drink
With mulberry’s blue arrayed,
And why from throat steals hiccough out
My mugging maid?
IV
Why is thy mug so wan and blue,
6 mouth
In mud and muck you’re laid;
Say, what’s the matter now with you
My mugging maid?
V
The flask that in her fam appeared
7 hand
The snore her conk betrayed,
8 nose
Told me, that Hodge’s max had queered
9 Notes; got the better of
My mugging maid.
Taken from
Musa Pedestris,
Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes
[1536―1896], collected and annotated by John S. Farmer.
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