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May God preserve all you that love,
and send you no such trial.


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AN OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY.

AN old woman clothed is grey
had a daughter was charming & young,
But she was deluded astray,
by Roger's false flattering tongue:

With whom she often had been,
abroad in the meadows and fields;
Her belly grew up to her chin,
her spirit sunk down to her heels.

At length she began for to puke
her mother possessed with fear:
She gave her a gentle rebuke,
and cry'd. Daughter a word in your ear.

I doubt you've been playing the fool,
which many call Hay ding a ding,
Why did you not follow my rule,
and tie your two toes in a string.

O Mother! your counsel I took,
but yet I was never tho near:
He won my heart with a false look,
and his words so enchanted mine ear.