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THE YOUNG MAN'S RESOLUTION.

1 BY Cupid and Bacchus I'm sadly perplex'd,
2 Both parties to hear I incline:
3 The urchin for ever comments on this text,
4 Beware of the juice of the vine.
5 Then Bacchus appears, with a cup in his hand,
6 Says, "Drink, and you'll drown ev'ry care;
7 But mind, ere you taste, I'll a promise demand,
8 That you fly from the lips of the fair."
9 O, sad the dilemma! pray, what must I do?
10 With Bacchus I never can part:
11 Ah! dear little God, if neglected by you,
12 It will rend ev'ry string of my heart.
13 O why such a pother? I've found out a way,
14 I'll bind myself fast by an oath,
15 While life warms my breast, each his pow'r shall display,
16 And I'll henceforth be loyal to both.

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Title (in Source Edition): THE YOUNG MAN'S RESOLUTION.
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Little, Janet, 1759-1813. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792, p. [100].  (ESTC T126549) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.)

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