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 ( 5 ) He went in with a humble bow, good morrow dear Nell.

I promis’d for to marry you, I’m come for to perform, This night you’ll be my wedded wife and shall lie-in my arms, O they are gone to church with speed where they were married well, She proves an honest loving wife, Says O rare Nell.

She never told it to her friend, her friend nor comerad, Until a month thereafter, that she was brought to bed, he told it at her gossopping which pleas’d her maidens well, And caus’d her husbandlaugh andsay well done Nell,

The Curragh of Kildare. THT winter it is past, (last, And the summer’s come at and the small birds sings on every tree, The hearts of those are glad,