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268 MOTHER GOOSES NURSERY RHYMES. “My sister, and my sisters child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we.” He soon replied, “I do admire Of womankind but one, And you are she, my dearest dear, Therefore it shall be done. “T am a linendraper bold, As all the world doth know, And my good friend the calender Will lend his horse to go.” Quoth Mrs. Gilpin, " That s well said; And for that wine is dear, We will be furnished with our own, Which is both bright and clear.” John Gilpin kissed his loving wife; O’erjoyed was he to find, That though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.
