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PART II.
YOU Lads and lasses that can read,
and you that fain would learn
Herein you may your fancies feed,
and pleasant tales discern.
If once they're fairly understood,
deny it if you can;
The merry tales of Robin Hood,
Scarlet and Little John,
Cannot compare with this small book
which I present to you.
Then Reader flight it not, but look
you read the same quite through,
And then you'll be well satisfy'd
that I the truth have spoke,
For all the book is beautify'd,
with many a pleasant joke.
A merry boot there is between
the Fryar and the Boy,
In which whole crowds were dancing seen
in mad and mickle Joy.
The little lad whose name was Jack,
he had a step mother,
To whom he prov'd so arch a crack,
that fearce is such another;
For he a pleasant pipe had got,
from a poor Hermit old,
Likewise a bow with which he shot,
the like was never sold;
With which he made delightful sport
upon a poor old Fryar,
And in the very Proctor's court
he did the Lawyers tire.
His step mother amongst the rout,
where'er the look'd on Jack,
