With transport he gazed all on her, His happiness then was complete; And he blessed the bountiful Donor, Who on him bestowed a mate.
She was not took out of his head, To reign or to triumph o'er man: She was not took out of his feet, By man to be trampled upon.
But she was took out of his side, His equal and partner to be: Though they are united in one, Still the man is the top of the tree.
Then let not the fair be despised By man, as she's part of himself; For a woman by Adam was prized More than the whole world with its pelf.
Then man without woman's a beggar, Tho' of the whole world he's possessed; And a beggar that has a good woman, With more than the world he is blest.
A fox went forth one moonshining night, And he prayed to the moon to give him good light, For he'd many miles to trot that night, Before he got home to his den O, His den O, his den O. For he'd many miles to trot that night, Before he got home to his den O.
And when he came unto a wood, As on his hinder legs he stood, A little bit of goose will do me good, Before I get home to my den O. My den O, my den O.
So off he set to a farmer's yard, The ducks and the geese were all of them scared; The best of you all shall grease my beard, Before I get home to my den O.
He seized the great goose by the neck And flung it all across his back, The young ones cried out, quack, quack, quack, And the fox went home to his den O.
Old mother Slipper-slopper jumped out of bed, She open'd the window and popp'd out her head,-- John! John! John! the great goose is dead. And the fox has gone home to his den O.
So John went up unto a hill, And blew his horn both loud and shrill; Says the fox This is very pretty music, still I'd rather be safe in my den O.
But when he came unto the den, Where he had young ones, nine and ten, Crying out, Daddy Fox, you must go there again, For we think its a lucky town O.
The fox and his wife they had such a strife, They never ate a better goose in all their life; They tore it abroad, without fork or knife, And the little ones pick'd the bones O.
TWEEDILY, TWEEDILY, TWEE (North Cornwall).
There was an old couple and they were poor; They lived in a house that had but one door, Tweedily, tweedily, twee.