But why should my cousin, pray, send you to me?
For these nineteen or twenty years I've been a wife,
And my husband ne'er had such a cap in his life.
"But go to the quaker who lives at the Swan,
I know she had one, and if 'tisn't gone,
Tell her to lend it to you for my sake,
Which I the same for a great favour shall take."
So she went to the house of old Yea and Nay,
And said to his wife, who was buxom and gay,
"I'm come for to borrow, if that you will lend,