Found this in the Bodley library. I don't have time to transcribe it all at pesent, but you may find it familiar from the first couple of verses. Date not specified, but must be somewhere before 1750?


Wiltshire Wedding

The Wiltshire wedding: between Daniel Do-well and Doll the dairy-maid

All in a misty morning, cloudy was the weather
I meeting with an old man was cloathed all in leather
With a shirt unto his back, but wool unto his skin
With how do you do and how do you do and how do you do agen

The rustic was a thresher, and on his way he hy'd
And with a leather bottle fast buckled by his side
And with a cap of woollen, which cover'd cheek and chin
With how &c

I went a little further, and there I met a maid
Was going then a milking, a milking sir she said
Then I began to compliment, and she began to sing
With how &c

I don't really inderstand what the story may be, except that her father doesn't get to give permission to the wedding, as her mother has already said yes?

It does have at least one other phrase that may be familiar from another song:

I'll plow and sow, and reap and mow (while thou shall sit and spin)