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ACK in the pulpit, out and in,
Sold his wife for a minikin pin.

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So, betwixt them both, you ser
They lick'd the platter clean.

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ESSY BELL and Mary Gray,

They were two bonny lasses; They built their house upon the lea.

And covered it with rashes.

Bessy kept the garden gate,

And Mary kept the pantry;

Bessy always had to wait,

While Mary lived in plenty.

HERE was a little man,

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And he woo'd a little maid,

And he said, "Little maid, will you wed, wed, wed?

I have little more to say.

Than will you, yea or nay,

For least said is soonest mended-ded, ded, ded

The little maid replied,

Some say a little sighed,

"But what shall we have for to eat, eat, eat? Will the love that you're so rich in

Make a fire in the kitchen?

Or the little god of love turn the spit, spit, spit?"

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P hill and down dale,

Butter is made in every vale,

And if that Nancy Cook

Is a good girl,

She shall have a spouse,

And make butter anon,

Before her old grandmother
Grows a young man.

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SI was going up Pippen-hill,
Pippen-hill was dirty

There I met a pretty miss,

And she dropt me a curtsey.

Little miss, pretty miss,

Blessings light upon you! If I had half-a-crown a day I'd spend it ali on you.

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ERE comes a lusty wooer,
My a dildin, my a daldin;

Here comes a lusty wooer,
Lily bright and shine a'.

Pray, who do you woo,
My a dildin, my a daldin?
Pray, who do you woo,
Lily bright and shine a'?'

"For your fairest daughter,
My a dildin, my a daldin ;
For your fairest daughter,
Lily bright and shine a'.'

"Then there she is for you,
My a dildin, my a daldin;
Then there she is for you,

Lily bright and shine a'."

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