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My father knocks full faſt,
And I do fear that he’ll come down,
and find the poſſet there.
Said Jack, he is not ſuch a clown,
that he ſhould ſo much fear
But to prevent the worſt, ſaid ſhe,
I’ll hide it now awa;
I would rot have the old one ſee,
leſt that we have a tray.
Old age is crabbed, that we have ſeen,
and by experience find
And to prevent the following woe,
theſe things we well muſt mind,
Into the privy houſe ſhe goes,
and ſets it on a ſtool
Her huſband little did ſuppoſe
that it was there, poor fool!
No ſooner he came out again,
but with redoubled force,
The old man kick’d with might and main,
and began to ſwear and curſe.
Up ſtairs ſhe ran with haſte and ſpeed,
when fearing to be ſent,
In the mean time he having need,
unto the privy went.
Now Jack⟨’s⟩ unto the privy come,
he look’d as he could roſs it,
He very fairly ſet his bum,
in the middle of the poſſet.
So ſcalded he was ne’er in his life,
which made him ſkip and trip,
