Page:K. James Ist. and the tinker.pdf/6



OU batchelors that are willing to marry,

I'd have you be careful for fear you miscarry,

I'd have you be wise and mind who you marry,

Lest you should be hamper'd like Paul and Nanny,

Sing rue, rue, rue, rue and be marry'd,

Sing fal driddle, lal driddle, lal driddle laddy,

I'd have you take warning by Paul Nanny.

Paul he had nothing, but Nanny had money,

He call'd her his love, his joy, and his honey,

The day was appointed, they were to be joined,

In the happy state of matrimony.

Sing rue, rue, &c.

Full ten months after the marriage was over,

Nanny her temper began to discover,

She rung such a peal on the side of his noddle,

Which made his head ake, and his brains grow addle.

Sing rue, rue, &c.

O you must get up, and make me a fire,

Or any thing else that I do desire,

You must wash the dishes, and rock the cradle,

Or else at your head goes the skimmer and laddle.

Sing rue, rue, &c.

O Nanny your words are very provoking,

I thought all the while you was but a joking,

Although that your amorous charms bewitches,

Yet for all that, you shan't wear the breeches.

Sing rue, rue, &c.

Go fetch me some water, and don't stand murm'ring

I wish that your breeches and you were a burning,

Come make up a fire, and put on the kettle,

For I'll have some tea, if you go to the devil.

Sing rue, rue, &c.