Such Old Simon drest, regardless of if not provided of real wood, However, a silky young Simon of sweet Tissue and you may Blood, Hid close ’twixt the fresh new Sheets where the guy lies snug but still, Till the widow (who harmless terrible issue dreamed no unwell).
With a great Keach and you may a good Yawn and you may a mellow sigh or a couple of, Because a negative unmarried Widdow you will well create, No in the course of time she considered by herself all of the comprehensive loving, However, extending for a change a sort Leg and you may an arm; With a plump heaving Breast, and you may an enjoying Cheek beside, She turn’d so you can their Simon one to lay-by their particular side.
Due to the fact she provided the kind Hug, on the other hand most of the on the an unexpected; She imagine she handled something which don’t feel Wood, To possess something she felt which was most of the soft and you will loving, Nay, for once things stir’d as well, however, considering zero harm, She hug’d him nonetheless closer, resolv’d is experimented with, Just what got alter’d new solid wood dated Sim by the her front.
But oh, to help you unriddle their unique Wonder! their own Palms Lockt fast from inside the Embraces, all of the Rapture and Charms, Right up until melting, and you can perishing, all of the twinning and you can pressing, She felt one thing sweet, therefore beyond all of the stating, You to never ever, O never ever, all of the Ravisht she cry’d, Therefore precious a sort Simon e’re lay by my top.
The latest Maid have always been, yet not right up until close Noon, To possess fear of troubling their particular Mistress too quickly, Came and knockt during the doorway, having knowing out of her Woman, What for Food she’d acquisition having her prepare; Exactly what Bak’d, Boil’d, or Roast, she would has actually their unique provide, ‘Gainst she flower from the Simon you to definitely lay by their unique side.
Roast brand new Pig plus the Goose, the brand new fast Widow reply’d, Boyl an effective stout Feet from Mutton, having Turneys beside; Score a meal away from fat Partridge, with a good smother’d Coney, The best might be purchas’d getting like and money: Having a menu out of sweet Custards and you will Cheesecakes beside, for my situation and my Dearest you to definitely lyes from the my front side.
As fast just like the an effective Girl, and as gay as the a bride-to-be, Trips nimbly to sleep, and lyes close by their top
Ay, Madam, your tend to can be done, states the brand new Maid, But just nice Mistress, I am painfully frightened, I’ve maybe not home had Wood adequate here, And also make an instant flame to help you top this a beneficial Brighten; How, Hussy, cry Widdow, need flame to suit your change!
Old Simon is actually Burnt after that, and all sorts of their a good Perk, Is greet too tiny to own their particular Bed-other dear; A senseless Dated Simon, that Wooden dull Fool; That have a sweeter softer armful better supply’d, She’s got loving Tissue and you can Bones now to help you lye by the their own top.
It is an enthusiastic English story, probably determined because of the ‘The Widow away from Ephesus’ tale. For the prose function it will be the last tale, #106, ‘Of the brand new Burning out-of old John,’ in the 1st English jest publication, A good. C. Mery Tayles , 1526. It had been rewritten as a tune in both the new seventeenth and 19th centuries. One here is away from an effective broadside ballad around 1690 during the new Pepys Ballads, III, p. 306. Brand new track are C. Yards. Simpson’s BBBM.
The fresh Death of Gluttonous Ingest-All of the, Inside my Lord Mayor’s Meal: Or, Tom Brown additionally the Alderman’s Widow.
[Having a name by doing this one doesn’t expect much, and indeed that does not get much, and you may Tom Brownish themselves will have written a much better type. Come across Tom Brown’s Contentment (This new Card Track). The last verse is enough to reveal the favorable inferiority regarding that it type to that preceeding]
When the widow to bed showed up, she organized their particular white, One their particular eyes on her behalf beloved partner’s photo you’ll live to the; And many people there are, say she died out of a good fright, While others a fairly facts give for the. One Betty net morning is plagued having wet timber, And the fire to help you white performed incline brief, And the widow bawled away, in the the right merry mood, “Oh! curse the new wood, Betty, why don’t we shed dated Swallowall.” Oh! Swallowall! Assist widow take caution by the enjoying deary, And widowhood never ever survive, An existence ’tis very alone and you may dreary.