...refrain "My thing is my own ..." follows each verse. The poem was first published in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection...of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New, London, 1719-1720. I have reproduced but a few of all the extant verses here. SeeTraub, The Renaissance...