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n old woman clothed in grey, had a daughter was charming & young, But she was deluded astray by Roger's false flatteriug tongue ;

With whom she often had been, abroad in the meadows and fields ; Her belly grew up to her chin her spirit sunk down to her heels.

At length she began for to puke, her mother possessed with fear : She gave her a gentle rebuke, and cry'd, daughter a word in your ear :

I doubt you'voyou've [sic] been playing the fool, which many callding a ding, Why did you not follow my rule, and tie your two toes in a string.

O Mother! yourI took but yet I was never the near : he won my heart with a false look,<br /d> and his words so enchanted mine ear,

That your precepts I soon did forget,<br /d> he on me and would have his scope,<br /d> O it is but a folly to fret,<br /d> 'tis done, and for it there’s no help.