Then he was resolved very quickly indeed,
To alter that fortune he found was decreed.
With a murdering heart next morning he rose,
And to the house of the farmer he goes;
Then asking the man, with a heart full of spite,
If the child was alive that was born last night?
"Worthy sir," says the farmer, "although I'm poor,
I had one born last night, and six long before;
Four sons and three daughters I now have alive,
Which are all in good health and likely to thrive."