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THE TRYAL OF PATIENCE.[205]
Being a relation of a widow in Yorkshire, who, having buried her husband, and left seven small children, was reduced to great poverty, and turned out of house and home; then going to her husband's brother, being a rich man, in hopes of finding relief, but instead thereof he threatened them with cruelty. With an account of a lady's love at the greatest time of her distress.
To the tune of "In Summer Time."
A loving couple in Yorkshire,
They having seven children small,
When poverty was so severe,
They had for them no food at all.
As I the naked truth may speak,