For their wives and their children foe hange them upon, That whosoever gives alms they will * give none. 120 Then laid he him down, and turned him away, * We ought in juftice and truth to read 'can'. II. PLAIN TRUTH, AND BLIND IGNORANCE. This excellent old ballad is preferved in the little ancient mifcellany intitled, "The Garland of Goodwill."—IGNORANCE is here made to speak in the broad Somersetshire dialect. The fcene we may fuppofe to be Glaftonbury Abbey. TRUTH. OD speed you, ancient father, G° And give you a good daye; What is the cause, I praye you, And |