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And if yoe keep them carefully
than God will you reward;
But if you otherwise should deal,
God will your deeds regard.
With lips as cold as any stone,
they kist their children small:
God bless you both my children dear!
with that the tears did fall.
These speeches than their brother spake
to this sad couple there,
The keeping of your little ones
sweet sister do not fear;
God never prosper me nor mine,
nor ought else that I have,
If I do wrong your children dear,
when you are laid in grave.
The parents being dead and gone,
the children home he takes,
And brings them straight nnto his house,
where nuch of them he makes.
He had not kept these pretty babes
a twelmonth and a day,
But for their wealth he did devise
To make them both away.
