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( 4 ) Sweet wife your ſon will be wedded indeed To a father daughter it makes my heart bleed

Unto whom ſweet huſband the wife did reply T one of our tenants that lived hard by, Wi that his mother in a paſſion did run, Go fetch me my ſon or I am undone.

He came in her preſence when ſhe ſaw his face, O ſon thou haſt brought me to ſhame & diſgrace. By joining to one that's not fitting for thee, I am not wedded ſweet mother ſaid he.

The ſon on his knees to his mother did cry, It you past me from my jewel I ſurely will die, Was I a lord of ten thouſand a year, I'd part with it all for the ſake of my dear.

The father in a paſſion replies to his ſon, I will take heed you ſhalt not be undone, And to the jewel thou doſt love ſo dear, Till have her tranſported, for you ſhall not hear

Which way ſhe is gone or where ſhe does go, And how to find her you never ſhall know, With that the ſon fell on his knees: Dear father do win me juſt as you pleaſe,

Now I'll leave me ſon in tears to complain, And unto the farmers daughter return She knowing his father would lend her away, She went to the tailor the very next day.

And bargain'd with him for a livre of green, Goat, waiſtcoat and breeches ſo near and to trim She got a black bag and tied up her hair And then for her journey ſhe did prepare.

She goes to the town wherea ſhe did dwell, Good people now blind but what I ſhall tell, The lord ſent his ſervants to bring her with ſpeed, In hopes to have her and ported indeed.

They came to her father and this they did ſo We come for your daughter to ſend her away