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Hen I was young and unmarry'd, I liv'd a merry life. But yet I could not be content, until I got a wife: She never did controul me, nor raging, curse and ban. For I was more than half goodwife, so was I hale goodman.

My dear was loving all her life, and she was good to me. And I can swear, in all her life she never took the gee. If company had caused me sometimes to stay from hame. My dear would not blaspheming rail, nor yet express my name,

But lovingly would me exhort, such things for to let be, And I am sure in all her life she never took the gee. But on a time my love fell sick, alas! and she did die. For her my heart was like to break, she never took the gee.

For three long months and more, I'm sure, I made a heavy moan.