The Singers' Companion/Dame Durden

DAME DURDEN.

Dame Durden kept five serving girls,
To carry the milking pail,
She also kept five lab’ring men,
To use the spade and flail.

’Twas Moll and Bet, and Doll, and Kate,
And Dorthy Draggletail,
And John and Dick, and Joe and Jack,
And Humphrey with hs flail.

Twas John kiss’d Dolly, and Dick hiss’d Betty,
And Joe kiss’d Molly, and Dorthy Draggletail,
And Kitty was a charming maid.
To carry the milk-pail.

Dame Durden in the morn so soon,
She did begin to bawl,
To rouse her servant maids and men,
She did most loudly call.
’Twas Moll and Bet, &c.

’Twas on the morn of Valentine,
The birds began to prate,
Dame Durden’s servant maids and men,
They all began to mate.
’Twas Moll and Bet, &c.