{"id":292,"date":"2010-03-16T00:57:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=292"},"modified":"2010-03-16T00:57:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T00:57:01","slug":"get-up-and-bar-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/get-up-and-bar-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Get up and Bar the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Get up and Bar the Door<\/p>\n

It fell about the Martinmas time,
\nAnd a gay time it was then,
\nWhen our goodwife got puddings to make,
\nAnd she ?s boil?d them in the pan.<\/p>\n

The wind sae cauld blew south and north,
\nAnd blew into the floor;
\nQuoth our goodman to our goodwife,
\n“Gae out and bar the door.”<\/p>\n

“My hand is in my hussyfskap,
\nGoodman, as ye may see;
\nAn? it shou?dna be barr?d this hundred year,
\nIt ?s no be barr?d for me.”<\/p>\n

They made a paction ?tween them twa,
\nThey made it firm and sure,
\nThat the first word whae?er shou?d speak,
\nShou?d rise and bar the door.<\/p>\n

Then by there came two gentlemen,
\nAt twelve o? clock at night,
\nAnd they could neither see house nor hall,
\nNor coal nor candle-light.<\/p>\n

“Now whether is this a rich man?s house,
\nOr whether is it a poor?”
\nBut ne?er a word wad ane o? them speak,
\nFor barring of the door.<\/p>\n

And first they ate the white puddings,
\nAnd then they ate the black.
\nTho? muckle thought the goodwife to hersel?
\nYet ne?er a word she spake.<\/p>\n

Then said the one unto the other,
\n“Here, man, tak ye my knife;
\nDo ye tak aff the auld man?s beard,
\nAnd I?ll kiss the goodwife.”<\/p>\n

“But there?s nae water in the house,
\nAnd what shall we do than?”
\n“What ails ye at the pudding-broo,
\nThat boils into the pan?”<\/p>\n

O up then started our goodman,
\nAn angry man was he:
\n“Will ye kiss my wife before my een,
\nAnd sca?d me wi? pudding-bree?”<\/p>\n

Then up and started our goodwife,
\nGied three skips on the floor:
\n“Goodman, you?ve spoken the foremost word!
\nGet up and bar the door.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Get up and Bar the Door It fell about the Martinmas time, And a gay time it was then, When our goodwife got puddings to make, And she ?s boil?d them in the pan. The wind sae cauld blew south and north, And blew into the floor; Quoth our goodman to our goodwife, “Gae out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1500s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}