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With all the barns and ploughs,
your cattle and money alſo!
If ſo, I will make her my ſpouſe,
ſpeak up, Are you willing or no.
Then Goody took Hodge by the hand,
let it be for to have and to hold,
I will make you the heir of my land,
my houſes, my ſilver, and gold,
Make her but your honoured wife,
and you ſhall be lord of my ſtore,
Whene’er I ſurrender my life,
in caſe it were forty times more.
The bargain was preſently ſtruck,
they wedded ;--and this being done,
The old woman wiſh'd them good luck,
being proud or her daughter and ſon.
Then, hey for a girl or boy;
young Peg look’d as big as a Ducheſs,
The old woman caper’d for joy,
and danc’d them a jig in her crutches.
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The Staffordshire TRAGEDY.
To its own proper Tune.
NEar Burton-town in Staffordſhire,
There liv’d a farmer’s daughter fair
On a game-keeper as we find,
This damſel ſhe did fix her mind.
