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INTRODUCTION.
Upon a time liv'd Goody Grim,
The great grandchild of Father Him;
And Him, so all accounts agree,
Was great grandchild to Father He.
This He, as all our authors tell us,
Kept company with the best of fellows,
Of heath'nish Gods, and Whigs, and Tories,
And learned many witty stories,
Which, handed down from He to Him,
Came all, at last, to Goody Grim;
Who, when she was sixscore years old,
And never touch'd with cough nor cold,
At warm fireside, o'er pot of ale,
Would spin out many a witty tale
Full of instruction and delight,
And as long as the winter's night.
The great grandchild of Father Him;
And Him, so all accounts agree,
Was great grandchild to Father He.
This He, as all our authors tell us,
Kept company with the best of fellows,
Of heath'nish Gods, and Whigs, and Tories,
And learned many witty stories,
Which, handed down from He to Him,
Came all, at last, to Goody Grim;
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And never touch'd with cough nor cold,
At warm fireside, o'er pot of ale,
Would spin out many a witty tale
Full of instruction and delight,
And as long as the winter's night.
But when old Grim by death was worried,
And laid into her grave, and buried,
Bedaub' d with soot, and snush and bubblings,
Her grandchild found these following scribblings,
With fifty merks, no more nor less,
To put her writings to the press.
And laid into her grave, and buried,
Bedaub' d with soot, and snush and bubblings,
Her grandchild found these following scribblings,
With fifty merks, no more nor less,
To put her writings to the press.
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