Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXL. Love And Matrimony.

    Brave news is come to town,
        Brave news is carried;
    Brave news is come to town,
        Jemmy Dawson's married.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXIX. Literal

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXCV. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXXIII. Love And Matrimony. [Cumberland courtship.]

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Nursery Rhyme. DCXXXV. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXVIII. Love And Matrimony.

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        They were two bonny lasses:
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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXXXIX. Love And Matrimony.

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