That daay with ale and cakes, at three o’clock,

Thees stuff’d me so, I jist neen crack’d me dock:

Jue said to me, ‘Thee mayst depend thee life,

I love thee, Mal, and thee shust be ma wife.’

And to ma semmen, tes good to lem ma naw

Whether the words were aal in jest or no.”

Saundry. Why, truly, Mal, I like a thing did zay,

That I wud have thee next Chewiden daay.

But zence that time I like a think ded hear

Thees went wi’ some one down, ‘I naw where;’