In plaÿ, wi' tiny shoes they wore,

An' call'd their mother's eyes to view

The feät's their little limbs could do.

Oh! Ellen Brine ov Allenburn,

They childern now mus' murn.

Then woone, a-stoppèn vrom his reäce,

Went up, an' on her knee did pleäce

His hand, a-lookèn in her feäce,

An' wi' a smilèn mouth so small,

He zaid, "You promised us to goo