‘Coming, sir!’ said she:

‘What bringeth these three gentlemen here,

Without the leave of me?’

‘You old fool! you blind fool!

Can’t you, won’t you, see?

They are three milking-maids,

That my mother sent to me.’

‘Odds bobs, here’s fun! Milking-maids with breeches on!

The likes I never see!

I cannot go a mile from home