LOVE AND MATRIMONY. 407

“What age may she be? What age may she be?
My boy Willy?

“Twice two, twice seven,
Twice ten, twice eleven:
But oh! she’s too young
To be taken from her mammy.”

 

DCCXXIX.

A COW and a calf,
An ox and a half,

Forty good shillings and three;
Is that not enough tocher
For a shoemaker’s daughter,

A bonny lass with a black e’e?