And then I began to tell her my case:

Whither walk’st thou, my pretty sweet soul?

She modestly answer’d to Hockley-i’th’-hole.

I ask’d her her business; she had a red cheek,

She told me, she went a poor service to seek;

I said, it was pitty she should leave the City,

And settle her self in a Country Town;

She said it was certain it was her hard fortune

To go up a maiden, and so to come down.

With that I alighted, and to her I stept,