Warmington.
OLD SONG: THE CUCKOLD'S CAP.
The following song I never saw in print. I knew an old lady, who fifty years ago used to sing it. Is it known?
Near Reading there lived a buxom young dame,
The wife of a miller, and Joan was her name;
And she had a hen of a wondrous size,
The like you never beheld with your eyes:
It had a red head, gay wings, yellow legs,
And every year laid her a bushel of eggs,
Which made her resolve for to set it with speed,