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⟨Should⟩ he ask me to wed, as he hinted today,
when my hand he so soft & so tenderly squeez’d,
He’s so pretty a swain that I can’t say him nay,
I’m resolv’d to be marry’d, O dear! I’m so pleas’d.
A DROP OF A DRAM.
AT two o’the clock my wife puts on her clothes,
And straight on the fire the tea-kettle goes,
Here’s good toast and butter, pray eat if you can,
Don't you think it convenient for a drop of a dram.
chorus.
Let's prittle prattle, tittle tattle, pour out the kettle,
O l bought it at the little shop over the way,
Straight over the way of that very good man,
Don’t you think it convenient for a drop of a dram.
Then comes t’other gossip, this is very fine tea,
Pray where did you buy it? Straight over the way,
Straight over the way of that very good man,
Don’t you think it convenient for a drop of a dram?
My husband he is a very bad man,
He will not allow me one drop of a dram,
And when that he does, it is little that I take,
It is altogether for company’s sake.
In comes t’other gossip, what news have you got?
O I have brave news, and ’tis quite piping hot,
If one man should lie with another man’s wife,
You must not speak a word, not a word for your life.
THE HAPPY MARRIAGE.
AS I was a walking one morning so fair.
So Green was the fields, and cool was the air.
There did I discover
Pretty Nancy my lover,
And I for to woo her was pleas’d for to say,
