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1560
1 >ieard of a prophecy as spoken by ruy mother
T}iat goin’ to a veddin’ vould bring on another.
If 1 heard of a weddin’ 1 would go witbout a biddin’
Por God ]cnows in me heart I’d be fond of a weddin’.
Come ink man, come pen man, come brever, come baker,
Come fiddler, come fifer, come veaver, come tailor,
Come ragman, hangman, foolish man or vhiddy,
Will you let me die a maid, von’t you marry me bar’ pity9
No inlc man, no pen man, no brever, no baker,
No fiddler, no fifer, no veaver, no tailor,
No ragman, no hangman, foolisb man or whiddy
Bat sbe’s now in the arrus oF a black chume>’ sveeper.
hoy he has got her and embraces her sveet charrus,
Nov he enfolds her in Ms black sooty armus,.
Hoy he has got her and he svears he vilí ]ceep her
Por sbe’s nov in the arms of a blac]c ah±mneysweeper.
Del mismo tipo a esta, con el final Léliz, es la que aparece en
SNO, pág. 461, ‘1 Long To Be Wedding’:
Come alí you good people, sorne older, sorne younger,
Sorne fourteen, sorne fLEteen, sorne sixteen vhen they marx’>’,
Mere 1 am forty—five, must yet longer tarry.