We'll keep this sweet baby and call it our own."

The good man consented, as I have been told,

And spared for neither silver nor gold,

Until she was aged eleven full years;

And then her sweet beauty began to appear.

Part II.

The fisherman he was one time at an inn,

And several gentlemen drinking with him;

The wife sent this girl to call the good man home;

But when she did into the drinking room come,