“ They sent for the Knight with tears in there eyes,
Saying, With this world we shortly must part,
And leave our sweet baby the joy of our heart,
⁠I hope if we leave this sweet babe in your care,
And all our estate and worldly affair,
You'll take care of him when we're laid in the grave
And furthermore great us the thing that we crave,
⁠That you will not break your promise to me,
But give your fair Daughter his Bride for to be:
But if that he die ere to age he do come,
Then all I leave him it shall be your own. ”

“ And we'll keep this wedding in fair Dorsetshire.
⁠We'll blaze it about, that upon such a day,
A brave beggar's wedding there is for to be;
The gentry will be ready to see such a sight,
And if he be living that perjured Knight,
⁠When that the wedding is done and all o'er,
I'll take the young couple unto his own door;
And make him a present of his own Daughter fair,
And tell him it is Jemmy his own son and Heir. ”

“ I kindly receive you, and when that is done,
I tell all the world of my treacherous deed,
For who can prevent what Fate has decreed.
⁠The cripples they snatch'd up their crutches and run,
To see the strange miracles there had been done ”