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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.
When I was fifteen years of age,Then I had suitors many:But, I a wanton peevish wenchWould 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.
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