Love
It's once I courted as pretty a lass
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
It's once I courted as pretty a lass,
As ever your eyes did see;
But now she's come to such a pass,
She never will do for me.
She invited me to her own house,
Where oft I'd been before,
And she tumbled me into the hog-tub,
And I'll never go there any more.
Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Love and Matrimony.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “It's once I courted as pretty a lass.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/438/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “It's once I courted as pretty a lass.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/438/.
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