Crime & punishment > Beautiful old song of The babes in the wood

J
i\nd to his little daughter Jean
[• five hundred pounds in gold,
< o be paid down on marriage-day,
whiah nught not be control l*d:
^»ut if the children chance to die,
ere they to age ftould come,
('heir uncle Ihould poflefs their wealth;
: for fo the will did run.
:fo\v brother find the dying man,
look to my children dear;
;»e good unto my boy and girl,
' no friends elfe have they here:
fo God and you I recommend
my < hildren dear this day;
lut little while be hire we have
I within this world tc fiay.
kou muft be father and mother both,
and unde all in one;
do,: knows what will become of thenr1,
when i uiii dead and gone.
Vith that befpakc their mother dear,
O brother kind quoh fi.ee,
ifcu are the man mult bring my. babes
to wealth or mifery.