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 May God preserve all you that love,

and send you no such trial. 



AN old woman clothed is grey

had a daughter was charming & young,

But she was deluded astray,

by Roger's false flattering tongue:

With whom she often had been,

abroad in the meadows and fields;

Her belly grew up to her chin,

her spirit sunk down to her heels.

At length she began for to puke

her mother possessed with fear:

She gave her a gentle rebuke,

and cry'd. Daughter a word in your ear.

I doubt you've been playing the fool,

which many call Hay ding a ding,

Why did you not follow my rule,

and tie your two toes in a string.

O Mother! your counsel I took,

but yet I was never tho near:

He won my heart with a false look,

and his words so enchanted mine ear.