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PART III.
The richeſt attire that there could be bought
With ſilver and gold was richly wrought,
For the Bride and Bridegroom they then did prepare
And ſo took their journey for fair Dorſetſhire.
A ſcore of the beſt that belong'd to the tribe
They took them along for to credit the Bride:
The lame with their crutches, the halt and the blind
Were plac'd in great order to follow behind.
When they had been two or three days in the town
The fame of a wedding was ſpread up and down;
The rich and the poor being curious to ſee,
And many reſolved the Bride's gueſt to be.
They hired the nobleſt hall in the town,
That the rich and the poor had room to ſit down
But Jemmy and Suſan were kept up ſecure,
Till they in their ſplendor appear'd at the door.
Some hundreds of people that ſtood for to gaze
At the ſight of the couple, were ſtruck with amaze
For ſhe did appear like an angel divine,
And he all the reſt of his ſex did outſhine.
Old Doll and her Husſband they followed the Bride
With a budget of good bread and cheeſe by their ſide
And after came hopping the blind and the lame,
Such a wedding in England before was ne'er ſeen
This couple they were not aſham'd of their gueſts
Becauſe that they nothing did know of their birth
Being joined in marriage, they back did return,
And now of the paſtime they had, Sir, at home.
They furniſhed the table with good wedding cheer
They had mumpt on the road coming to Dorſetſshire
Good rind of fat bacon and nice mouldy cheeſe,
And niggins of ale, Sir, as ſtrong as you pleaſe.
Dinner being ended, ſtarts up one of the gueſts,
