Wit and humor > Hodge of the mill, or, An old woman clothed in grey

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With all the barns and ploughs,
your cattle and money alfo !
I£ fo, I will make her my fpoufe,
fpeak 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 houfes, my hlver, and gold,
Make her but your honoured wife,
and you (hall be lord of my ftore,
Whene’er I furrender my life,
in cafe it were forty times more.
The bargain was prefently ftruck,
they wedded j—and this being done,
The old woman wilh’d them good luck,
being proud oi her daughter and ion.
Then, hey for a girl or boy ;
young Peg look’d as big as aDuchefs,
The old woman caper’d for joy,
and danc’d them a'jig in her crutches.
Ihe Staffordshire a RAGEDY.
To its own proper Tune.
NEar Burton-town in Staffordfliire,
l here liv’d a farmer’s daughter fair
On a game-keeper as we find,.
This damfel fhe did fix her mind,