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When cockle-shells in streets do grow,
and swans upon dry banks are breeding;
When mussel-shells grow diamond rings,
and glass to gold may be compared
When gold is made of grey-goss wings,
O than my love and I'll be married.
When women know not how to scold,
and Dutchmen leave off drinking brandy,
When cats do bark, and dogs do mew,
and brimstone's t'ken for Sugar-candy:
When Whitsuntide it does fall out
all in the Month of January,
When coblers works without an awl,
O then my Love and I'll be married.
When Candlesticks do serve for bells,
and frying-pans do serve for ladles,
And in the Sea they dig for wells,
and porrage-pots they do serve for cradles,
When all maids prove true to their loves,
and a man on his back an ox can carry;
And when the mice with the cat doth play,
O then my Love and I'll be married.
THE WAY FOR TO WOO.
"Come tell me, my bonny sweet lassie,
O tell me the way for to woo:
Come tell me, my bonny sweet lassie,
O tell me the way for to woo.
Say maun I rouse your red checks like the mor-
ning,
