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Trudges all day with his plough void of care,    At eve to the village he flies, In hopes a good ditty or story to hear;    For those all his wishes supplies.

From An Address to a Wealthy Libertine or, the Melancholy Effects of Seduction; with a Letter from an Unfortunate Farmer's Daughter, to her Parents in Norfolk by Parkerson, James