And by his joy therein he plainly shows,

He thanks the man that pay’d those debts he owes:

But these She-Blacks in justice thought it fit,

That he which got the child, likewise keep it:

Therefore both love and custom made it so,

On the true Father they the child bestow:

By which good Law unto each man ’tis known,

That he doth keep no other child but’s own.

Were this observ’d in England, I durst swear,

Some what-d’ye-lacks would Heirs to Lords appear;