Marriage > Humours of Gravel-Lane, or, The cobler's daughter's wedding

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The KUMOtTRS c* GR A VEL*LAKE;
OR, T H K
CDBLIR'3 DAUGHTER’S WEDDING.
A TAYLOR courted a Collier’s Daughter,
whofe living was near GrareLbne,
But mark, I pray, what followed aft^r,
for Hie r’as a girl that was fond of the gamej
When he came to her, thinking to woo her,
her father to him thus begun,
Says, If you’ll take her and wife you’ll make her.
I’ll give you a portion when you’re my fou.
Although I fay it, the is a clever girl,
as ever wag bred in Gravel-lane,
Although (lie’s dreft in no rich apparel,
there’s many a dray-boy kno\*& her name :
Bear down upon her, ycuTl gain the honour,
that none before has &Kr done,
That is to take her, and a wife to make her,
and you’ll gain the title'cf a cobkr’s Con,
Then fays five Taylor, I do not rattle,
I am worth a thimble, go*fe, and flieers,
L!.ketrift: a needle I hai’e us’d in battle,
againd all rry foes for thefe many years ;
Where’er iney feize me, or fry to tesze me,
I rr»i them quite thro’ ’till the job’s done,
So if I take her, and a wife I trske her.
Fit hay? a portion when I’m your fon.
The portion I will give to my daughter,
’tis worth a couple of pence or more,
So of her I beg you will make no liughter,
lor (he i3 the child we do idore