I still hope he’ll be mine,

And live happy as any can be, O.

O my sweet laddie, &c.


THE INVITATION.

Neighbours I’m come for to tell ye, our skipper and Moll’s to be wed,

And if it be true what they’re saying, egad we’ll be all rarely fed;

They’ve brought home a shoulder of mutton, besides two thumping fat geese,

And when at the fire they’re roasting, we’re all to have sops in the grease.

Blind Willy’s to play on the fiddle.