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[ 24 ] If you walk in the fields my pleaſure to find, You may ſee what the plowman enjoys in his mind The corn he ſows grows, and the flowe s do ſpring And the powman's as happy as a prince or a king

When his day's work is done that he has to do, Pehaps to ſome country wake he will go. There with a ſweetleſs he will dance and ſing, And at night return with his laſs back again.

And as they return from their walk to the town When the meadows are mow d, and the graſs cut down, If they chance for to tumble amang the green hay, It's kiſs me now or never, the damſel did ſay.

Then he riſes next morning to follow his team, Like a jolly plowman ſo ne and ſo trim; If he kiſs a pretty girl he will make her his wife, And ſhe loves her dear plowman as ſhe does her life.

Come Molly and Dolly lets way to the wake, There the plow bo,s will treat us with beer, ale and cake, And if in coming home they ſhould gain their ends, Ne'r fear but they'll marry us or make us amends.

There's Molly and Dolly, and Nelly and Sue, There's Ralph, John, Willy, and young Tommy too Each lad takes his laſs to the wake or the fair, Ad ooks, they look rarely I vow and declare.

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