. Songs and ballads of the West : a collection made from the mouths of the people. ll kiss her then,- And swear that TaIK marry h-r — but will not tell her wh-n! 2 I found a bixom widow, with many tonb of goli, I livd upun her fortune, as long as it would hold. Of pounds I took five hundred, bettrud- my horse, and th--n , 1 promised I would marTy h-r but never told her wh-nl 3 A vintner had a daught--r, the Golden Sun his sign,1 turned at his tavern , I drank his choicest wine;I drank out all his cellar, bestrode my horse, and then,1 said the Id marry, but never told him wh-ni 4 Th- guin
. Songs and ballads of the West : a collection made from the mouths of the people. ll kiss her then,- And swear that TaIK marry h-r — but will not tell her wh-n! 2 I found a bixom widow, with many tonb of goli, I livd upun her fortune, as long as it would hold. Of pounds I took five hundred, bettrud- my horse, and th--n , 1 promised I would marTy h-r but never told her wh-nl 3 A vintner had a daught--r, the Golden Sun his sign,1 turned at his tavern , I drank his choicest wine;I drank out all his cellar, bestrode my horse, and then,1 said the Id marry, but never told him wh-ni 4 Th- guineas are expended, the win- is also spent;The widow and the maiden, they languish and if they come to se-k me, Ill pack them back promises of marriage, — but n-ver te4l them wh^n. 5 My little horse I mounted , the world that I might see, I found a pretty maid-n as poor as poor coul i be. My little horse neglected, to London ran away, J asked if she would marry, and bade h-^r name the day. F 4 *.|B|7d 21fi THE SAUCY PLOUGHBOY. jyp W2. S. mihSpirU. X. maid- >ns,Anri lis - ten un-to ms; Bii snv. towed a ploughboy,Nonn
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