Merry Drollery, Complete (1670)/Bring forth your Cunny skins

by Anonymous

A Catch.

Bring forth your Cunny skins, fair maids, to me,And hold them fair that I may seeGray, Black, and blew; for your smaller skinsI’ll give you Glasses, Laces, Pins: And for your whole Cunny I’ll give you ready money.

Come, gentle Jone, do thou beginWith thy black, black, black Cunny skin,And Mary then, and Kate will followWith their silver’d-hair’d skins, and their yellow; Your white Cunny-skin I will not lay by, Though it be fat, it is fair to the Eye.

Your gray is is warm, but for my moneyGive me the bonny, bonny black Coney;Come away, fair maids, your skins will decay,Come and take money, maids, put your ware away. I have fine Bracelets, Rings,And I have silver Pins;

Coney skins, Coney skins,Maids, have you any Coney skins.