Hic hoc, the carrion crow
Another version from MS. Sloane, 1489, fol. 17, written in the time of Charles I.
“Hic hoc, the carrion crow,
For I have shot something too low:
I have quite missed my mark,
And shot the poor sow to the heart;
Wife, bring treacle in a spoon,
Or else the poor sow's heart will down.”
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