Thus warmed up, Pinter starts with an explanatory "spoken"
to the effect that the song he is about to sing illustrates
some of the little ways of woman, and how, no matter what you say or do,
she is bound to have her own way in the end; also how, in one instance,
she set about getting it.

Hoh!

Now, it's of a young squoire near Timworth did dwell,
Who courted a nobleman's daughter so well --

The song has little or nothing to do with the "squire",
except so far as "all friends and relations had given consent," and --

The troo-soo was ordered -- appointed the day,
And a farmer were appointed for to give her away --

which last seemed a most unusual proceeding, considering the wedding
was a toney affair; but perhaps there were personal interests --
the nobleman might have been hard up, and the farmer backing him.
But there was an extraordinary scene in the church, and things got mixed.

For as soon as this maiding this farmer espied:
"Hoh, my heart! Hoh, my heart!
Hoh, my heart!" then she cried.

Hysterics? Anyway, instead of being wed --

This maiden took sick and she went to her bed.