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( 7 ) Now ſhe was luſty Joan by name,

and was their conſtent cook:

And when he to the kitchen came

ſhe him would over look.

She oftentimes wou'd play her part,

and call him creeping cur;

This vex’d Jack Horner to the heart,

he could not bear with her.

Upon a certain day young Jack

a ſlice of bread did take,

And threw it in ihe dreeping pan,

that he a ſop might make

So ſoon as ſhe the ſame did ſee,

it put her in a rag

And with the baſting ladle ſhe

Jack Horner did engage.

She gave him knocks upon the crown

ſo hard and ſtruck ſo faſt

That he at length did tumb!e down,

and graſping lay at laſt.

But though he did it firſt retreat,

he ſoon return’d again.