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THE TASK Or that ever I do these two and three, Whilst every grove, etc. I will set of tasks as many to three, O and then, etc.

You must buy for me an acre of land, Whilst every grove, etc. Between the salt sea and the yellow sand, O and then, etc.

You must plough it o'er with a horse's horn, Whilst every grove, etc. And sow it all over with one pepper-corn, O and then, etc.

You must reap it, too, with a piece of leather, Whilst every grove, etc. And bind it all up with a peacock's feather, O and then, etc.

You must take it up in a bottomless sack Whilst every grove, etc. And bear it to the mill on a butterfly's back, O and then, etc.

And when that these tasks are finished and done, Whilst every grove, etc. O then will I marry thee under the sun, And then thou shalt be a true lover of mine.