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With gold and silver spangles
she was so drest all round,
The noise of such a fortune,
of so many thousand pound.
The old man call’d his son aside,
and thus to him did say,
Take my advice and marry her,
my child this very day;
That morning they were marry’d,
and dinner being done.
The old man being mellow,
the story thus began.
Said he, My dearest Son,
I’ll tell you what is true,
A poor blinking Cobler,
has married year sweetheart Sue.
This young man stept aside,
as here I now confess,
And in a very little time
put on his Cobler’s dress;
And taking Susan by the hand,
he fell upon his knee,
Saying, Pardon us dear father,
Sir, pardon if you please;
