But ho! ho! ho! old Simon doth know,

Where many a flask of his best doth go.

But ho! ho! ho! old Simon doth know,

Where many a flask of his best doth go.

Old Simon reclines in his high-back’d chair,

And oft talks about taking a wife;

And Margery is often heard to declare:

“She ought to be settled in life!”

“She ought to be settled in life!”

But Margery has (so the maids say) a tongue,