What is’t you lack

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What is’t you lack, what would you buy?
What is it that you need?
Come to me, gallants, taste and try,
‖: Here’s that will do, :‖ (×3) will do the deed.

1. Here’s water to quench maiden fires.
Here’s spirits for old occupiers.
Here’s powder to preserve youth long.
Here’s oil to make weak sinews strong.

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2. This powder doth preserve from fate,
This cureth the maleficiate.
Lost maidenheads this doth restore,
And makes them virgins as before.

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3. Here’s cure for bone-ache, fever hardens
Unlawful or untimely burdens,
Diseases of all sexes, all ages,
This medicine cureth or assuages.

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4. I have receipts to cure the gout,
To keep pox in or put them out,
To cool hot bloods, cold bloods to warm,
Shall do you, if no good, no harm.

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