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The Beggar’s Opera

by John Gay

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Air XVIII. o the Broom, &c.

Macheath.
The Miser thus a Shilling sees,
 Which he’s oblig’d to pay,
With sighs resigns it by degrees,
 And fears ’tis gone for ay.
Parting, and looking back at each other with fondness; he at one Door, she at the other.
Polly.
The Boy, thus, when his Sparrow’s flown,
 The Bird in Silence eyes;
But soon as out of Sight ’tis gone,
 Whines, whimpers, sobs and cries.

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