But none gave her a dirty word.

A tall pale woman, grey and bent,

Folk said of her that she was sent.

She wore Friend's clothes, and women smiled,

But she'd a heart just like a child.

She come to us near closing time

When we were at some smutty rhyme,

And I was mad and ripe for fun;

I wouldn't a minded what I done,

So when she come so prim and grey