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Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime	A
Put on his pistols and went riding out	B
But had got wellnigh nowhere at that time	A
Till he fell in with ladies in a rout	B
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It was a pretty lady and all her train	C
That played with him so sweetly but before	D
An hour she'd taken a sword with all her main	C
And twined him of his nose for evermore	D
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Captain Carpenter mounted up one day	E
And rode straightway into a stranger rogue	F
That looked unchristian but be that as may	E
The Captain did not wait upon prologue	G
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But drew upon him out of his great heart	H
The other swung against him with a club	I
And cracked his two legs at the shinny part	H
And let him roll and stick like any tub	I
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Captain Carpenter rode many a time	A
From male and female took he sundry harms	J
He met the wife of Satan crying I'm	A
The she wolf bids you shall bear no more arms	J
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Their strokes and counters whistled in the wind	K
I wish he had delivered half his blows	L
But where she should have made off like a hind	K
The bitch bit off his arms at the elbows	L
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And Captain Carpenter parted with his ears	M
To a black devil that used him in this wise	N
O Jesus ere his threescore and ten years	M
Another had plucked out his sweet blue eyes	N
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Captain Carpenter got up on his roan	O
And sallied from the gate in hell's despite	P
I heard him asking in the grimmest tone	O
If any enemy yet there was to fight	P
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To any adversary it is fame	Q
If he risk to be wounded by my tongue	R
Or burnt in two beneath my red heart's flame	Q
Such are the perils he is cast among	R
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But if he can he has a pretty choice	S
From an anatomy with little to lose	T
Whether he cut my tongue and take my voice	S
Or whether it be my round red heart he choose	T
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It was the neatest knave that ever was seen	U
Stepping in perfume from his lady's bower	V
Who at this word put in his merry mien	U
And fell on Captain Carpenter like a tower	V
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I would not knock old fellows in the dust	W
But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back	X
His weapons were the old heart in his bust	W
And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack	X
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The rogue in scarlet and grey soon knew his mind	K
He wished to get his trophy and depart	H
With gentle apology and touch refined	K
He pierced him and produced the Captain's heart	H
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God's mercy rest on Captain Carpenter now a	Y
I thought him Sirs an honest gentleman	Z
Citizen husband soldier and scholar enow	Z
Let jangling kites eat of him if they can	Z
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But God's deep curses follow after those	L
That shore him of his goodly nose and ears	M
His legs and strong arms at the two elbows	L
And eyes that had not watered seventy years	M
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The curse of hell upon the sleek upstart	H
That got the Captain finally on his back	X
And took the red red vitals of his heart	H
And made the kites to whet their beaks clack clack	X

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