So he made haste to pull wide open the mouth of his purse and loaded her with presents, for the damsel had found favor in his eyes, and he sought to win her.
And not many days after he espoused the maiden, and there was great feasting and merry making at that house, and the same was heard of the neighbors.
And on the following day, the farmer took her to his own home, in the valley of Berryessa, and they lived happily together for the space of many years.
DAVID GOYLE, THE MILLER MAN.
“’Tis a strange cap: ’Twill give and take, and fit many heads.”—Old Volume.
Oh, will you hear with patient ear,
The story I’ll relate
About man’s infidelity,
And learn his losses great?
There lived a little miller once,