Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

ao6 ANCIENT SONGS
And night by night,
I them affright
With pinchings, dreames, and ho, ho, ho ! 80
When lazie queans have nought to do,
But ftudy how to cog and lye ;
To make debate and mifchief too,
'Twixt one another fecretlye :
I marke their gloze, 85
And it difclofe,
To them whom they have wronged To ;
When I have done,
I get me gone,
And leave them fcolding, ho, ho, ho ! 90
When men do traps andengins fet
In loop-holes, where the vermin e creepe,
Who from their foldes and houfes, get
Their duckes and geefe, and lambes and fheepe:
I fpy the gin,
And enter in,
And feeme a vermine taken fo ;
But when they there
Approach me neare,
I leap out laughing, ho, ho, ho ! 10®
By wells and rills, in meadowes greene,
We nightly dance our hey-day guife ;
And to our fairye king, and queene,
We chant our moon-light minftreliies.
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