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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346106" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Jolly Beggar I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘THER is a wife in yone toun-end, an she has dothers three,<br>An I wad be a beager for ony of a’ the three.’<br>He touk his clouty clok him about, his peakstaff in his hand,<br>An he is awa to yon toun-end, leak ony peare man.<br>‘I ha ben about this fish-toun this years tua or three,<br>Ha ye ony quarters, deam, that ye coud gie me?’<br>‘Awa, ye pear carl, ye dinne kean my name;<br>Ye sudd ha caed me mistress fan ye called me bat deam.’<br>He tuke his hat in his hand an gied her juks three:<br>‘An ye want manners, misstres, quarters ye’ll gie me.’<br>‘Awa, ye pear carle, in ayont the fire,<br>An sing to our Lord Gray’s men to their hearts’ disire.’<br>Some lowked to his goudie lowks, some to his milk-whit skine,<br>Some to his ruffled shirt, the gued read gold hang in.<br>Out spak our madin, an she was ay shay,<br>Fatt will the jolly beager gett afore he gaa to lay?<br>Out spak our goudwife, an she was not sae shay,<br>He’se gett a dish of lang kell, besids a puss pay.<br>Out spak the jolly beager, That dish I dou denay;<br>I canne sup yer lang kell nor yet yer puss pay.<br>Bat ye gett to my supper a capon of the best,<br>Tuo or three bottels of yer wine, an bear, an we sall ha a merry feast.<br>‘Ha ye ony siler, carll, to bint the bear an wine?’<br>‘O never a peney, misstress, had I lang sine.’<br>The beager wadne lay in the barn, nor yett in the bayr,<br>Bat in ahind the haa-dor, or att the kitchen-fire.<br>The beager’s bed was well [made] of gued clean stray an hay,<br>. . . . . . . . .<br>The madin she rose up to bar the dor,<br>An ther she spayed a naked man, was rinen throu the flour.<br>He tuke her in his arms an to his bed he ran;<br>‘Hollie we me, sir,’ she says, ’or ye’ll waken our pear man.’<br>The begger was a cuning carle, an never a word he spake<br>Till he got his turn dean, an sayn began to crak.<br>‘Is ther ony dogs about this toun? madin, tell me nou:’<br>‘Fatt wad ye dee we them, my hony an my dou?’<br>‘They wad ravie a’ my meall-poks an die me mukell wrang:’<br>‘O doll for the deaing o it! are ye the pear man?<br>‘I thought ye had ben some gentelman, just leak the leard of Brody!<br>I am sorry for the doing o itt! are ye the pore boddie?’<br>She tuke the meall-poks by the strings an thrue them our the waa!<br>‘Doll gaa we meall-poks, madinhead an a’!’<br>She tuke him to her press, gave him a glass of wine;<br>He tuke her in his arms, says, Honey, ye’ss be mine.<br>He tuke a horn fra his side an he blue loud an shill,<br>An four-an-tuenty belted knights came att the beager’s will.<br>He tuke out a pean-kniff, lute a’ his dudes faa,<br>An he was the braest gentelman that was among them a’.<br>He patt his hand in his poket an gaa her ginnes three,<br>An four-an-tuenty hunder mark, to pay the nires feea.<br>‘Gin ye had ben a gued woman, as I thought ye had ben,<br>I wad haa made ye lady of castels eaght or nine.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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An I wad be a beager for ony of a’ the three.’
He touk his clouty clok him about, his peakstaff in his hand,
An he is awa to yon toun-end, leak ony peare man.
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