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5 Unknown unto your worſhip, and with a chambermaid. I underſtand, ſome money, fir, with her you're free to give To help to keep the child and the, as long as they ſhall live: And I'm an honeſt cobler, and liveth here hard by, For fifty pounds I'll marry her, if that will ſatisfy The old man ſaid, before then the money I do pay, I'll ſee her fairly married, and I'll give her away. With all my heart, the cobler unto the old man ſaid; With that he fetch'd the 50 pounds, the bargain it was made. And when he came into the church, as we do underſtand, The old man ſtrutted boldly up, and took her by the hand. And cry'd out, heaven bleſs ye, and ſend you long to live, For as a token of my love, theſe fifty pounds I give.