A Plea

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Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane,
  Treat me nice.
  Dough my love has tu'ned my brain,
  Treat me nice.
  I ain't done a t'ing to shame,
  Lovahs all ac's jes' de same;
  Don't you know we ain't to blame?
  Treat me nice!

  Cose I know I 's talkin' wild;
  Treat me nice;
  I cain't talk no bettah, child,
  Treat me nice;
  Whut a pusson gwine to do,
  Wen he come a-cou'tin' you
  All a-trimblin' thoo and thoo?
  Please be nice.

  Reckon I mus' go de paf
  Othahs do:
  Lovahs lingah, ladies laff;
  Mebbe you
  Do' mean all the things you say,
  An' pu'haps some latah day
  W'en I baig you ha'd, you may
  Treat me nice!

© Paul Laurence Dunbar