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 3 How cows, and ſheep, and butter fold,

Or who was wed when ſhe was old,

Then got money fast:

Had merry days while it did laſt;

Did feaſt, and drink, and game, and play,

And ſwore when they had nought to ſay.

They came to church but very rare,

But miſs'd not when a bride was there;

Yet reſted on the Sabbath day

From ev'ry thing, but drink and play.

And ſlept that day but not before

Their head and tail could hold no more,

Then like true cocks that love the game,

They'd riſe and drink and ſleep again.

Their wives cou'd drink as people ſay,

And hold as much, or more, than they;

Wou'd have their meanful penny ſpent,

With goſſips, at a merriment!

Theſe homely females drink no tea,

Nor chocolate' nor ratifea;

They made no viſits aw no play,

But ſpan their vacant hours away.

And thus the COLLIERS, and their ,

Liv'd drunken, honeſt, working lives;

Were very fond of one another,

And always married one thro' other.

The ſons and daughters of this ſort,

Were always fond of country ſport

And all the young unmarried fry,

Did ſtrive each her to outvy!

And would on hopping days be dreſt

Genteel, and in their very beſt,