You'd cry to bachelors at hwome—

"Here, come: 'ithin an hour

You'll vind ten maïdens to your mind,

In Blackmwore by the Stour."

An' if you look'd 'ithin their door,

To zee em in their pleäce,

A-doèn housework up avore

Their smilèn mother's feäce;

You'd cry—"Why, if a man would wive

An' thrive, 'ithout a dow'r,