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 With all the 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 wiſh'd them good luck,

being proud or her daughter and ſon.

Then, hey for a girl or boy;

young Peg look’d as big as a Ducheſs,

The old woman caper’d for joy,

and danc’d them a jig in her crutches.

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To its own proper Tune.

Ear Burton-town in Staffordſhire,

There liv’d a farmer’s daughter fair

On a game-keeper as we find,

This damſel ſhe did fix her mind.