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MARGERY TOPPING
WHEN I wur in Cumberland I went a wooing,
Bad luck to my sorrow for it nigh prov'd my ruin.
I wur dying by inches,and looked so shocking,
’Twere all for the love of one Margery Topping
Fal lal, &c
With thoughts of this maiden so handsome and proper,
I fasted all day and night took no supper,
My mammy said Peter do make yourself easy,
But that was not Margery good lack-a-daizy,
Fa lal, &c,
I put on my best cloaths, as I’ve heard people say,
When you want a fair maiden is to look spruce and gay,
And I powder’d my hair with an old drudging box
And I got a pig's tail, only see how it cocks.
Fal lal, &c.
