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 And now, my honey love,
 Will we return unto thy father's house
  And revel it as bravely read more 
 And now, my honey love,
 Will we return unto thy father's house
  And revel it as bravely as the best,
   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;
     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,
      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry. 
 It is not linen you're wearing out,
 But human creatures' lives.  
 It is not linen you're wearing out,
 But human creatures' lives. 
 Around his form his loose long robe was thrown,
 And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone.  
 Around his form his loose long robe was thrown,
 And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone. 
 Dress drains our cellar dry,
 And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
  And introduces hunger, read more 
 Dress drains our cellar dry,
 And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires
  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,
   Where peace and hospitality might reign. 
 My galligaskins, that have long withstood
 The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
  By time subdues (what will read more 
 My galligaskins, that have long withstood
 The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
  By time subdues (what will not time subdue!)
   An horrid chasm disclosed. 
 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that 
they stript Joseph out of his read more 
 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that 
they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that 
was on him:
 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was 
empty, there was no water in it. 
 The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the 
trimmings of the vain.  
 The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the 
trimmings of the vain. 
 Her polish'd limbs,
 Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
  Beyond the pomp of dress; for read more 
 Her polish'd limbs,
 Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire;
  Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness
   Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
    But is, when unadorn'd the most.