“ Five hundred pounds more, this Cripple had got,
By begging and thieving as many one thought.
Five hundred pounds more will make him full glad,
For he was resolv'd to leave off the old trade :
At last he was taken for stealing a prize,
Condemned and hanged at Salisbury Assize. ”

“ But one call'd captain Curry, O wow, but he was mean,
For the sake of twenty shillings he got me basely ta'en;
They put me in the guard-house, my state for to deplore,
With two at every window, and four at every door. ”

“ I being in the guard house, and gazing all around,
I jump'd out at a window & knock'd ten of them down,
But the light horse & train men, soon did follow me;
But a friend I met did me assist, & I gain'd my liberty. ”

“ That caus'd you to wander so far from your home.
And made us meet strangers in this desart alone.
⁠He says, my sweet fair one the truth I will tell,
If was in my own country near Newry I dwell,
But yet to misfortunes my love I was prone,
Which made many a hero go far from his home.
⁠Sir the lads of sweet Newry are all roving blades,
And take great delight in courting fair maids,
They kiss them & press them, & call them their own,
And perhaps your darling lies mourning at home. ”

“ He told her he'd give her a pad to ride out,
A coach, if she lik'd it, to visit about.
She thank'd him, & said, she could very well walk,
Should she have a coach how the neighbours would talk,
Should she have a coach, etc. ”