From Gammer Gurton's Garland by Joseph Ritson (London: R. Triphook, 1810), page 45:


THE MILK PAILS.

Betty's gone a milking, mother, mother;
Betty's gone a milking, dainty fine mother of mine:
Then you may go after, daughter, daughter;
Then you may go after, dainty fine daughter of mine.

Buy me a pair of milk pails, mother, &c.
Where's the money to come from, daughter? &c.

Pawn my father's feather-bed, mother, &c.
Where's your father to lay? daughter, &c.

Lay him in the maid's bed, mother, &c.
Where is the maid to lay? daughter, &c.

Lay her in the pig-stye, mother, &c.
Where are the pigs to lay? daughter, &c.

Lay them at the stair-foot, mother, &c.
There they will be trod to death, daughter, &c.

Lay them by the water-side, mother, &c.
There they will be drowned, daughter, &c.
Then take a rope and hang yourself, mother, &c.