And naow she makes William a very good wife.

Folk-Lore Society, County Folk-Lore, Printed Extracts: No 2, Suffolk, 1893, collected and edited by the Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon, p. 139 f. Contributed by “a Suffolk man” to the Suffolk Notes and Queries column of The Ipswich Journal, 1877.

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There wus a man lived in the West,

Limbo clashmo!

There wus a man lived in the West,

He married the wuman that he liked best.

With a ricararo, ricararo, milk in the morn,

O dary mingo.

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