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( 13 ) So all theſe dancers by conſent,

they after him did follow,

He led them on thro’ bogs and ſloughs,

nay likewiſe ponds and ditches,

And in the thorny briary boughs,

poor rogues they tore their breeches,

Each fiddler loſt or tore his cloak,

but ſtill they follow’d after,

The crowds crack’d and the glaſses

it was a woeful ſlaughter. (broke,

At laſt it being ſomewhat late,

Jack did his piping leave,

So ceas’d, ſeeing their wretched ſtate,

as made them ſigh and grieve.

Sure this ſame is Old Nick 1 know,

and author of this evil:

And others cry’d If it be ſo,

he is a merry devil.

Jack Horner laugh’d and went away,

and left them in deſpair;

So ever ſince that very day,

no crowders would come there.

CHAP. VI.

JACK'S Kindneſs to the INN-kEEPER,

whom be puts in a Way to pay his Debts.

AN honeſt man, an innkeeper,

a friend to honeſt Jack,