"Six month was over and seven months were past,
This pretty fair maid grew thick about the waist.
She could scarcely lace her stays, nor tie her apron string,
'Twas then that she remembered the bedmaking."

Servant girl in "The Bedmaking" --

"Me father he was a good old man
He sent me to service when I was young.
Me missus and me, we never could agree
Because that me master he would love me."


Linn