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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

Note 413 — 53 YOUNG BEICHAN

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In M, to make everything pleasant, Bondwell offers the bride five hundred pounds to marry his cousin John. She says, Keep your money; John was my first love. So Bondwell is married at early morn, and John in the afternoon.

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