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SUCTION:  Hang that shit, let's have a song.
QUID: 

When Old Corruption first begun, 
      Adorn'd in yellow vest, 
He committed on Flesh a whoredom-- 
      O, what a wicked beast! 

From them a callow babe did spring, 
      And Old Corruption smil'd 
To think his race should never end, 
      For now he had a child. 

He call'd him Surgery, & fed 
      The babe with his own milk, 
For Flesh & he could ne'er agree, 
      She would not let him suck. 

And this he always kept in mind, 
      And formed a crooked knife, 
And ran about with bloody hands 
      To seek his mother's life. 

And as he ran to seek his mother 
      He met with a dead woman, 
He fell in love & married her, 
      A deed which is not common. 

She soon grew pregnant & brought forth 
      Scurvy & Spott'd Fever. 
The father grinn'd & skipt about, 
      And said, "I'm made for ever!" 

"For now I have procur'd these imps 
      I'll try experiments." 
With that he tied poor Scurvy down 
      & stopt up all its vents. 

 

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