Classic Poem

The false fox came unto our croft,
And so our geese full fast he sought.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!
Come no more unto our house to bear our geese away.

The false fox came unto our sty,
And took our geese there by and by.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox came into our yerde,
And there he made the geese aferde.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox came unto our gate,
And took our geese there where they sate.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox came to our hall-door,
And shrove our geese there in the floor.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox came into our hall,
And assoyled our geese both great and small.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox came unto our coop,
And there he made our geese to stoop.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

He took a goose fast by the neck,
And the goose thoo began to quek.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The goodwife came out in her smok,
And at the fox she threw her rok.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The goodman came out with his flail,
And smote the fox upon the tail.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

He threw a goose upon his back,
And furth he went thoo with his pack.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The goodman swore if that he might
He would him slee or it were night.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox went into his den,
And there he was full merry then.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

He came ayene yet the next week,
And toke away both hen and cheke.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The goodman said unto his wife,
This false fox liveth a merry life.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

The false fox came upon a day,
And with our geese he nade affray.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

He took a goose fast by the neck
And her to say wheccumquek.
With how fox, how! With hey fox, hey!, etc.

I pray thee, fox, said the goose thoo,
Take of my feders but not of my toe.