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 LL you that delight in merriment,

come listen to my song,

’Tis very new, and certain true;

ye need not tarry long,

Before you laugh your belly full:

I pray be pleas’d to stay,

I’m sure you will be pleased,

before you go away.

There was an old Knight in Derbyshire,

who had a handsome son,

He kept a handsome chambermaid,

who had his favour won;

They dearly lov’d each other,

and to their love gave way,

Until she fell with child to him;

pray mind what I shall say.

In tears she told the story,

My dearest love, said she.

I am no less than twenty weeks

now gone with child to thee.