Sung by Mrs. Cibber in " The Provok'd Husband "

Oh, I'll have a husband, ay marry,
For why should I longer tarry
Than other brisk girls have done?
For if I stay
Till I grow grey,
They'll call me old maid,
And fusty old jade;
So I'll no longer tarry,
But I'll have a husband, ay marry,
If money can buy me one.

My mother she says I'm too coming,
And still in my ears she is drumming
That I am too young to wed.
My sisters they cry
Oh fie, and Oh fie!
But yet I can see
They're as coming as me;
So let 'em have husbands in plenty;
I'd rather have twenty times twenty
Than die a despis'd old maid.