Little couple/Old Adam

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OLD ADAM.

⁠Both ſexes give ear unto my fancy.
While in praiſe dear women I ſing,
Confin’d not to Moll, Kate or Nancy,
But make, from the Beggar to King.

⁠Old Adam when firſt was created,
And Lord of the Univerſe crown’d;
In happineſs was not compleated
Until that a Help-mate he found.

⁠He’d all things for food that was wanting,
Which makes us content thro' our lives;
He’d horſes and foxes for hunting,
That ſome men love more than their wives,

⁠He’d a garden ſo planted by nature,
Men cannot produce in this life;
But ſtill the all-wiſe GREAT CREATOR,
Saw that he wanted a wife.

⁠Then Adam was laid in a ſlumber,
And then he loſt part of his ſide,
And when he awoke, he with wonder
Beheld his moſt beautiful bride.

⁠In tranſport he gazed upon her,
His happineſs now was complete;
Then praiſed the bountiful Donor,
Who had thus bestow'd him a mate.

⁠She was not ta’en out of his head, Sir,
To reign and triumph over man;
Nor was ſhe ta'en out of his feet, Sir.
By man to be trampled upon.

⁠But ſhe was ta’en out of his ſide, Sir,
His part'ner and equal to be;
But as they’re united in one, Sir,
The man is the top of the tree.

⁠Then let not the fair he deſpiſed,
By man as ſhe is part of himſelf
For woman by Adam was prized.
More than the globe full of wealth.

⁠man without a woman's a beggar,
Suppoſe the whole world he poſſeſs’d;
But a beggar that’s got a good woman,
With more than the world is bleſs’d.

FINIS.