PHILLIS

With this large petticoat I strive in vain

To hide my folly past, and coming pain;

'Tis now no secret; she, and fifty more,

Observe the symptoms I had once before:

A second babe at Wapping must be placed,

When I scarce bear the charges of the last.

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