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 In Danby-forſt I was born,

my beauty did excel,

My parents dearly loved me,

till my belly began to ſwell.

I might have been a princeſs' peer,

when I came o’er the knows,

Till the ſhepherd’s boy beguiled me,

milking my daddy’s ewes. All maids, &c.

When once I felt my belly ſwell,

no longer might I bide;

My mother put me out of doors,

and bang'd me back and ſide.

Then did I range the world ſo wide,

wand’ring among the knows,

Curſing the boy who helped me,

to fold my daddy’s ewe?. All maids, &c.

Who would have thought a boy ſo young,

wou’d us’d a maiden ſo,

For to allure her with his tongue,

and then from her to go.

Which hath, alas! procur’d my woe,

to credit his fair ſhews;

Which now too late, repent I do

the milking of the ewes, All maids, &c.

All maidens fair, then have a care,

when you a milking go;

Truſt not to young men’s tempting tongues,

that would deceive you ſo;

For you ſhall find them prove unkind,

and glory in your woes;