While they were talking all of this,
Which caused the old man to wake,
Said, What’s the matter, my pretty little parrot,
That you chatter so long before day?
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‘The cat she sprung against my cage,
And surely frightened me,
And I called for the pretty fair miss
To drive the cat away.’
(1 lacks the third verse; in 21,2, 31,2, 41,2, fee and gold should be exchanged; in 122, 142, wake should perhaps be say.)