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There’s slabbering bubs and barries also,
And shoes and stockings when the child can go,
When the child can speak, he must go to school,
I pray who would marry to be such a fool.
Blankets and pins, blankets and pins, &c.
The MAID’S ANSWER.
YOU poor sorry fellow, forbear now to rue,
If ever I marry it shan’t be with you,
For you that considers those things at the first,
The woman that marry’s you surely is curst,
She surely is curs’d, that e’er will have you.
Therefore sorry fellow I bid you adieu.
Whoever does get you, full hard is her lot,
You’ll know how much meal will thicken the pot,
The loaf in the cupboard all day it may ly,
Though she with sad hunger be ready to cry.
She surely is curs’d, that e’er will have you,
Therefore sorry fellow, I bid you adieu.
The TRAVELLING CHAPMAN.
COntentment consists not in wealth,
Nor yet in great store of riches,
For although that my winning be very sma',
Yet I have contentment, that’s best of a'.
I travell'd all day, but no money did get,
Not so much as a penny appeared in sight;
You may suppose that my winning was sma',
Yet I have contentment, that’s best of a'.
