Had She Not Care Enough

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Had She Not Care Enough
Jeremy Savile, 17th century
(On a widow who married an old widower)

Had she not care enough of the old man,
She wed him, she fed him and to the bed led him,
For seven long winters she lifted him on.
But O! how she niggled him, all the night long.


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