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“AS I TRAVERS’D TO AND FRO”
“AS I TRAVERS’D TO AND FRO”
[c. 1650]
[From the Academy of Compliments, p. 199].
As I travers’d to and fro,
And in the fields was walking,
I chanc’d to hear two Sisters
That secretly were talking:
The younger to the elder said,
Prethee why do’st not marry?
In faith, quoth she, I’le tell to thee,
I mean not long to tarry.
And in the fields was walking,
I chanc’d to hear two Sisters
That secretly were talking:
The younger to the elder said,
Prethee why do’st not marry?
In faith, quoth she, I’le tell to thee,
I mean not long to tarry.
When I was fifteen years of age,
Then I had suitors many:
But, I a wanton peevish wench
Would not sport with any:
Till at the last I sleeping fast,
Cupid came to woo me,
And, like a lad that was stark mad,
He swore he would come to me.
Then I had suitors many:
But, I a wanton peevish wench
Would not sport with any:
Till at the last I sleeping fast,
Cupid came to woo me,
And, like a lad that was stark mad,
He swore he would come to me.
