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THE INQUISITIVE LOVER
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As I walked through the pleasant grove, Not alone as might have Seen supposed, My mind did often times remove, And by no means could be disclosed; I chanced to meet some friend of mine, Which caused me some time to tarry, And thus of me she did entreat, To tell her when I meant to marry.
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"Sweetheart," said I, "if you must know, t Go mark these words as 1 reveal them; So plainly print them on your mind, And in your heart do you conceal them; For of these things, oh, make no doubt, If of the same you will be wary, So now to tell you I'll begin, Oh, when I do intend to marry."
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"When hot sunshine won't dry up mire, And fishes in green fields are feeding; When man and horse the ocean plow, And swans upon dry rocks arc swimming; When every city isjnilled down, Old England into France is carried, When indigo dyes red and brown, Then me and mv true love will marry."
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"When country-men for judges sit, And lemons fall in February; When cockle-shells lie in the streets No gold to them can be compared. When women know not how to scold, And maids on sweethearts ne'er are thinking, When grey goose wings turn to gold rings, Then me and my true love will marry."
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'Good sir, since you have told me when, That you've resolved for to marry, I wish with all my heart till then That for a wife you still may tarry, If all young men were of your mind, And maids no better were preferred, I think 'twould be when the devil were blind That wc and our true loves should marry." |
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