If to these conditions without all fear,
Of your own accord you will freely swear:
A gammon of bacon you shall receive,
And bear it hence with love and good leave;
For this is our custom at Dunmow well known,
Tho’ the sport be ours, the bacon’s your own.
Upon which a gammon of bacon was delivered to the said Thomas Shakeshaft, and Ann his wife, with the usual solemnity.
THE RENT DAY;
OR, BLACK MONDAY MORNING.
