‘And do you stand a little away,
And listen weel what she shall say.’

XXXIV

He did him to the market-place,
And there he bought a loaf o’ wax.

XXXV

He shaped it bairn and bairnly-like,
And in ’t twa glasses e’en he pat[90].

XXXVI

He did him till his mither then,
And bade her to his boy’s christ’nen.

XXXVII

And he did stand a little forbye[91],
And noticed well what she did say.

XXXVIII