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Their meat is dirjested, 

 They nere are molested, 



no sicknesse doth them assaile : 

 Their time is spent 

 In merryment ; 

 While limbs are lent. 

 They are content 



to carry the milking paile. 



Those lasses nice and strange, 



that keep shops in the Exchange, 

 Sit pricking of clouts, 

 And giving of flouts ; 



they seldome abroad doe range : 

 Then comes the green sicknesse 

 And changeth their likenesse, 



all this for want of good sale 

 But 'tis not so, 

 4 As proofe doth sho'.v, 



Bv them that goe 

 In frost and snow, 



to carry the milking paile. 



If they any sweethearts have, 



"that do affection crave. 

 Their privilidge is this. 

 Which many others misse, 



they can give them welcome brave 

 With them they may walke, 

 And'pleasantly talke, 



with a bottle of wine or ale : 

 The gentle cow- 

 Doth them allow. 

 As they know how. 

 God speed the plow, 



and blesse the milking paile I 



Upon the first of May, 



with garlands fresh and gay, 



With mirth and musick sweet, 



For such a season meet, 



they passe their time away : 



They dance away sorrow. 



And all the day thorow 



their legs doe never fayle ; 

 PART n. 6 



