She told her: "You love a gentleman who is far away.

He is dark, and there is another gentleman, a fair-haired man that loves you, and you'll soon get a letter.

You'll marry before two years, and be the mother of three children." There was a horse going with a waggon along the road; and I saw a youth, and asked him, "How much money ?" (for the horse), and he replied to me, "Ten pounds." I said, "Is that your horse ?" "Yes." Well, a Gipsy gave him ten pounds for the horse, and sold it for twelve pounds to a great gentleman.

It was a good black horse, with a (handsome) strong leg (literally large), but it had a bad foot; it was the _near_ foot, and it was a kicker.

He gave it some opium medicament to keep quiet (literally to stop there), and held his rein (_i.e_., trotted him so as to show his pace, and conceal his faults) on the road.
At the cock-shy a gentleman came, and Wantelo halloed out, "Three sticks for a penny, eighteen for a sixpence!" And the gentleman took a stick, and we had five shillings for three dozen throws! The gentleman played well, and got five cocoanuts, and took us to his carriage and gave me three glasses of brandy, so that I was almost drunk.