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( 4 ) With all your barns and ploughs,

your cattle and money also? If so I will make her my spouse. speak up, Are you willing or no?

Then Goody took Hodge by the hand,

let it be for to have and to hold ; I will make you the heir of my land, my houses, my silver and gold.

Make her but your honoured wife; and you shall be Lord of my store, Whene’er I surrender my life,

in case it were forty times more.

The bargain was presently struck they wedded; and this being done,

The old woman wished them good luck,

being proud of, her Daughter and Son,

Then Hey for a Girl or a Boy ;

young Peg look’d as big as a Duchess, The Old Woman caper’d for joy.

and danc’d up a jig in her crutches.





O friend, and to foe, and to all that I know, That to marriage state do prepare ; Remember your days, in their several ways, Are troubled with sorrow and care.