Ballad Book by Unknown
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His hat made of an oaken leafe,
His shirt a spiders web, Both light and soft for those his limbes That were so smally bred; His hose and doublet thistle downe, Togeather weav'd full fine; His stockins of an apple greene, Made of the outward rine; His garters were two little haires, Pull'd from his mothers eye, His bootes and shooes a mouses skin, There tand most curiously. Thus, like a lustie gallant, he Adventured forth to goe, With other children in the streets His pretty trickes to show. Where he for counters, pinns, and points, And cherry stones did play, Till he amongst those gamesters young Had loste his stocke away, Yet could he soone renew the same, When as most nimbly he Would dive into their cherry-baggs, And there partaker be, |
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