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 Into the pond then they a dabbling went,
 * so clean that they needed no washing;

But they were all so unluckily bent,
 * like boys they began to be dashing.

If any should chance to see us says one,
 * they'd think we are goddess's of evils,

And from the sight of us would quickly run,
 * to avoid so many white devils.

This put the youth into such a merry pin,
 * he let go his hold through laughter;

And as it sell out, he tell tumbling in,
 * and fear'd them all out of the water.

The old man by this time a noise had heard,
 * and rose out of his bed in a fright, Sir,

And comes to the door with an old rusty sword,
 * and stood in a posture to fight, Sir.

The daughters they all ran nimbly in,
 * and over their dad they did founder;

Who cry'd out aloud, Mercy good gentlemen,
 * and thought they were thieves come to plunder.

The noise by this time the neighbourhood hears,
 * who came with long clubs to assist him,

He said, Three bloody rogues ran up my stairs,
 * I dar'd by no means to resist them

For they all three were clothed in buff,
 * he saw as they shov'd in their shoulders,

And black bandiliers hung before like a ruff,
 * which made me believe they were soldiers.

The Virgins their clothes in the garden had left,
 * and keys of their trunks in their pockets,

To roll them in sheets, were fain to make shift, their chest, they could not get unlockt