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With all your barns and ploughs,
your cattle and money also?
If so I will make her my spouse.
speak up, Are you willing or no?
Then Goody took Hodge by the hand,
let it be for to have and to hold ;
I will make you the heir of my land,
my houses, my silver and gold.
Make her but your honoured wife;
and you shall be Lord of my store,
Whene’er I surrender my life,
in case it were forty times more.
The bargain was presently struck
they wedded; and this being done,
The old woman wished them good luck,
being proud of, her Daughter and Son,
Then Hey for a Girl or a Boy ;
young Peg look’d as big as a Duchess,
The Old Woman caper’d for joy.
and danc’d up a jig in her crutches.
TO friend, and to foe,
and to all that I know,
That to marriage state do prepare ;
Remember your days,
in their several ways,
Are troubled with sorrow and care.
