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SONG LXXL Cold and Raw, 3c<s
OLD and raw the North did blow,
Bleak in the Morning early,
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All the Trees were hid with Snow,
Cover'd with Winter yearly :
As I was riding o'er the Slough,
I_met with a Farmer's Daughter,
Rofy Cheeks and a bonny Brow,
Good Faith, my Mouth did water.
Down I vail'd my Bonnet low,
Meaning to (hew my Breeding,
She return'd a graceful Bow,
Her Viiage far exceeding .-
I ask'd her where fhe was going {o foon p
And long'd to hold a Parley :
She told me, to the next Market-town,
On Purpofe to fell her Barley. "
In this Purfe, fweet Soul, laid I,
Twenty Pounds lie fairly,
Seek no further one to buy,
For lie take all thy Barley •
Twenty Pound more {hall purchale Delight,
Thy Perfbn I love fo dearly,
If thou wilt lig with me all Night,
And gang home in the Morning early.
If forty Pound would buy the Globe,
This Thing I would not do, Sir,
Or were my Friends as poor as Job f
I'd never raife them fb, Sir j
For (hould you prove one Night my Friend,
We's get a young Kid together,
And you'd be gone e'er nine Months End,
Then where fhould I find the Father ?
Pray what would my Parents fay*
If I fhould be fo filly, '*
To give my Maidenhead away,
And lole my true Love Biliv ?