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Therefore I advife you to wed, and make her as honeft as I.

Then what will you give me ? quoth Hodge, if I take your daughter by hand ? Will you make me the heir of yonr lodge, your houfes, your money and land? With all your barns and ploughs, your cattle and money alfo. If fo I will make her my fpoufe, fpeak 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 houfes, my filver. and gold ; Make her but your honoured wife, and you fhall he lord of my ftore, Whene’er I furrender my life, in cafe it were forty times more.

The bargrin was prefent’y ftruck, they wedded ; and this being done, The old woman wifh’d them good luck, being proud of her Daughter and Son? Then hey for a girl or boy young Peg look’d as big as a duchcfs, The old woman caper'd for joy; and danc'd them a jig in her crutches. FINIS.