“With fare so blith, and heart elate,
Jane trudg’d towards the fair;
“”Come quicker on,”” cried she to Kate,
“”My John you know’ll be there.
“”John promised me on last May-day,
This fair he would me give
A cap as good, and ribbons gay,
They wear in town who live.
“”He ask’d me, Kate, the other day,
If I his bride would be,
You know I could’nt well say nay
To such a lad as he.
“”Now is not he a cleaver youth,
And handsome too beside?
“”To tell thee Kate the honest truth,
I mean to be his bride.
“”So haste, my girl, I promise thee,
A favor white to give,
The day that John does marry me,
As sure as I do live.””
(Elizabeth Beverley)”
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