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Rh She ſaid. For to marry,

ſhe never did incline,

Becauſe her deareſt Jamie

was ever in her mind:

She ne’er cou’d love anither

ſo dear’s ſhe loved he:

Therefore to my propoſal

The never cou’d agree.

I applied to her mother,

whoſe aged heart did bleed,

Becauſe that I had often

ſupported them indeed;

She was loth to adviſe her,

but ſaid ſhe’d happy be,

If her daughter wou’d conſent

to be a wife to me.

I made my Jenny preſents

of ſilver broach and rings,

Yet ſtill ſhe ſhun’d my preſence,

for a’ theſe handſome things:

At laſt I grew ſo ill.

that ſome thought I would die;

Then my bonny Jenny Bell

ſhe came to viſit me.

As ſoon as I beheld her,

it did my heart relieve:

I ſaid, if ſhe would marry me,

I hoped yet to live.