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24 Dear was the kindlie love which Kathrin bore This crooked Ronion, for in soothly guise She was her genius and her counsellor: Now cleanly milking-pails in careful wise Bedeck each room, and much can she despise The Knights complaints, and thriftlesse judgment ill: Eke versd in sales, right wondrous cheap she buys, Parlour and bedroom too her bargains fill; Though useless, cheap they beene, and cheap she purchasd still.

His tenants whilom been of thriftie kind, Did like to sing and worken all the day, At seedtime never were they left behind, And at the harvest feast still first did play; And ever at the terme their rents did pay, For well they knew to guide their rural geer: All in a row, yclad in homespun gray, They marchd to church each Sunday of the year, Their imps yode on afore, the carles brought up the rear.