4° ESTHONIAN POERTY. 



Bring breeding geefe, 



Bring ducks by couples, 



Bring the feet of fwimming fowl, 



Come to the fwing, and let us fwing. 



Shove the children into the cradle, 



The father will nurfe the children. 



I went to the fwing to fwing, 



And there I found many black-ftockings, 



Of Anna two ftriped ribbands, 



Of Lifa handfome garters. 



Of the Kubija's daughter golden treffes, 



Of the poor orphan only falfe treffes. 



By way of conciufion, I will prefent you with a few 

 more nuptial fpnnets. The firft of which mult incon- 

 teftably have been written fomewhere in the period be- 

 tween the beginning of the year 1580 and the clofe of 

 the year 1583, when the Swedes, Poles, and Ruffians, 

 were all in the country at once. The Turks therein- 

 mentioned muft be fynonymous with Tartars, a ,mif- 

 take that may eaiily be pardoned in a nation fo yery 

 deficient in the fcience of geography. 



X. A Wedding-fong. The good luck of a girl 

 brought up in the manlion-houfe of the eftate, with 

 the nobleman's family, who is probably to be married 

 to one of the upper fervants, is here celebrated* 

 " Thou knowft thy flation, where thou fafely fleepeft: 

 (€ but we, thy parents, — (it was doubtlefs in war 

 " time,) — we know not where we fhall fleep. Per- 

 *' haps the morafs or the field will be our death-bed." 



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