Rhymes of Northern Bards / Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham

by Unknown

If you wish to wed, betroth to bed,

One cull’d with caution and care.

I here make free—give ear to me,

The county I’ve scan’d around;

So from the mass select a lass,

Where virtue and beauties abound.

The lasses of TWEED are deft indeed,

Their garlands give such grace:

The lasses of TILL are sprightly still,

In figure, in fashion, and face.