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Tho oft our friends have frowning saud
And clled it sense and reason
I was time enough as yet to wed
At my future season

But Harry vow^d it should be soon
And own^d too long we^d tarried
Then fixed the twenty first of June
The day that we were married & -

3^d
Three years have passed in mutual bliss
So maidens do not tarry.
A Single life is sure amiss
So I advise to marry -
For was she home to come again
To church I would be carried
And truly bless the happy day
The day that we were married, -
Oh sweetest day &c. &c. &c.

continuation of the day of Marriage

Maria or the beggar girl

Simplice
He with
Ma-ri--a was mis--for-tunes Child re--port so spread her fate ---- with trem-bling