The Northern DITTY:
OR, THE
Scotch-man Out-witted by the Country Damsel.
To an excellent New Scotch Tune, of Cold and Raw the North did blow, etc.
A Song much in Request at Court.
This may be Printed, R.P.
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COld and Raw the North did blow
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bleak in the morning early;
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All the Trees were hid with Snow,
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cover'd with Winters yearly:
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As I came riding o'er the Slough,
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I met with a Farmers Daughter;
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Rosie Cheeks, and bonny Brow,
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geud Faith made my mouth to water.
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Down I vail'd my Bonnet low,
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meaning to show my breeding,
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She return'd a graceful bow,
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her Visage far exceeding;
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I ask'd here where she went so soon,
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and long'd to begin a Parley;
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She told me to the next Market-Town,
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a purpose to sell her Barley.
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In this Purse, sweet Soul, said I,
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twenty pound lies fairly,
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Seek no farther one to buy,
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for I'se take all thy Barley:
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Twenty more shall purchase delight,
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thy Person I love so dearly,
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If thou wilt lig by me all night,
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and gang home in the morning early.
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If Forty pound would buy the Cloke,
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this thing I'de not do Sir,
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Or were my Friends as poor as Job,
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I'd never raise 'em so Sir:
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For shou'd you prove tonight my Friend,
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we'fe get a young Kid together,
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And you'd be gone e'er nine Months end,
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and where shall I find the Father?
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Pray what would my Parents say,
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if I should be so silly,
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To give my Maidenhead away,
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and lose my true Love Billy?
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Oh, this would bring me to Disgrace,
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and therefore I say you nay, Sir;
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And if that you would me Embrace,
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first Marry, and then you may Sir.
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I told her I had Wedded been,
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fourteen years and longer,
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Else I'd chuse her for my Queen,
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and tye the Knot yet stronger.
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She bid me then no farther rome,
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but manage my Wedlock fairly,
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And keep my Purse for poor Spouse at home,
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for some other should have her Barley.
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Then as swift as any Roe,
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she rode away and left me;
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After her I could not go,
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of Joy she quite bereft me:
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Thus I myself did disappoint,
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for she did leave me fairly,
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My words knock'd all things out of [joint]
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I lost both the maid and ba[rley.]
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