Trip it, gipsies, trip it fine,
— Show tricks and lofty capers;
At threading-needles we repine,
— And leaping over rapiers:
Pindy-pandy rascal toys,
— We scorn cutting purses;
Though we live by making noise,
— For cheating none can curse us.
Over high ways, over low,
— And over stones and gravel,
Though we trip it on the toe,
— And thus for silver travel:
Though our dances waste our backs,
— At night fat capons mend them;
Eggs well brewed in buttered sack,
— Our wenches say befriend them.