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The Six Questions

   When you go down through yonder town,
   Sing ivy leaf, sweet William and thyme,
   Give my respects to that young maid,
   And she shall be a true lover of mine.
   
   Tell her to make me a cambric shirt
   Sing ivy leaf...
   Without any seam or needlework
   And she shall be...
   
   Tell her to wash it in yonder dry well
   Where never spring water nor rain ever fell
   
   Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn
   That never bore blossom since Adam was born
   
   Now he has asked of me questions three,
   Sing ivy leaf, sweet William, and thyme.
   I hope he will answer as many for me.
   And he shall be a true lover of mine.
   
   Tell him to find me an acre of land
   Sing ivy leaf...
   Betwixt the salt water and the sea sand
   And he shall be...
   
   Tell him to plough it with a cuckold's horn
   And sow it all over with one peppercorn
   
   Tell him to reap it with a sickle of leather
   And bind it all up with a peacock's feather
   
   When he has done and finished his work
   O, tell him to come for his cambric shirt
   
   Sing ivy leaf, sweet William and thyme...
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