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( 14 ) Who was in debt alas! ſo far,

that he was like to crack.

Now this man had a handſome wife,

ſweet fair, and beauteous too!

A Quaker lov’d her as his life,

and this Jack Horner knew.

The Quaker was a ſquire born,

and did in wealth abound:

Said he, I'll catch him in the corn,

and put him in the pound,

Firſt to the Inɲ-Keeper I’ll go,

and when I do him find.

He ſha1l underſtand and know,

that I’ll be truly kind.

So he met him in a narrow lane,

and ſaid My friend, good-morrow;

But the Inn-keeper reply’d again,

my heart is full of ſorrow.

Two hundred pounds I am in debt,

which I mud pay next week,

It makes me ſigh, lament, and fret,

having the coin to ſeek,

Quoth Jack if you’ll be rul’d by me,

I’ll put you in a way,

How you yourſelf from debts may free,

and all the monev pay.

Nay, this is jovful news he cry’d,

thou art a friend indeed.

Thy wit ſhall be my rule and guide,

for never was more need,