The travelling Tinker, and the Country Ale-Wife:
Or, the lucky Mending of the leaky Copper.

A Comely Dame of Islington,

Had got a leaky Copper;

The Hole that let the Liquor run,

Was wanting of a Stopper:

A Jolly Tinker undertook,

And promised her most fairly;

With a thump thump thump, and knick knack knock,