“ And sometimes a kissing, and sometimes a kicking:
Then for comfort a cordial she'd now and then try,
Alternately bunging or piping her eye;
And these facts of this couple the hist'ry contain,
For when he kick'd Miss Roe, she kick'd him again. ”

“ With strawberry flowers cover all my bowers,
⁠and hang them round with the linen.
The minstrels all be on our call,
⁠when you see his horses coming;
(illegible text) s music spring spare not your string,
⁠when your hear his bridles ringing.
He call'd on Mag her chamber maid,
⁠and Jeanny her gentle comas,
To bring me a bottle of the good Spanish wine,
⁠for to drink his health that's coming.
She gently tripped down the stair,
⁠and away to the gate to meet him:
You are welcome, you lord of the Boyne,
⁠you are welcome home from London. ”

“ They call me Giles the plowman's boys
Throughwoods and o'er stiles, as I trudge many miles,
I whistle, I whistle, and whoop, gee woo, Jerry.
My work being done to the lawn there I fly,
Where the lads at the lasses all look very sly ”

“ Her petticoats was of the silk to fine.
⁠set out out with the silver and scalloping,
Her gown was of the red damask silk so fine,
⁠trimmed with the red gold mounting.
You guildery maids, come trim up gauze
⁠and make them silver shining ”