Page:Kattie's answer to wabster Jock.pdf/5

 And now I do intend for

to go and eek a wife.

Such a wife as I want,

is not for to be found,

And uch a wife as I want,

is not above the ground.

It‘s if I marry an old one.

I‘m ure that he will fade,

And if l marry a young one,

he'll kill me with her pride;

It‘s if I marry a tall one,

he'll crack me on the crown.

And if I marry a little one,

they pull the young men down.

It's if I marry a pretty one,

a cuckold I will be

And if I marry an ugly one,

the boys will laugh at me.

One night as I lay on my bed,

trange things there came to pas,

Who did I ee at my bed-ide,

but a handome pretty lass.

The firt quetion I aked her;

If that he was a maid,