Trembling, trembling.
Rise and shine and she is mine.
Let her come let her come let her let hers come.
A net to catch her. Please let her a net let her let hers come.
Ought come.
A bell and all is well.
She is mine.
All is all is all is
Alice.

Win Her

Walk and write and talk and type.
Mermaid old mermaid old maid cold maid.
She will not.
Cow her. Cow her.
She will not.
To win her to sin her to sin hers.
She will not.
Three is not we. Two is not you.
One is not won.

Spare Ring

Gather forget-me-nots.
Butter cups and plates and custard and cake.
Walks and words and ice cream and flour.
A spoon a purse a feather a book.
A table a cutlet a violet a brown.
Lily a lily and a hyacinth.
A box.
No thing spare ring to woo her.
A rose and a rose and a rose and a rose.

Sum Her

Cherry tossed and lost.
Tossed and lost in land of caesar.
Gather two to gather.
Walks and talks and mount ten climbs.
Heat and whine and weep and mine.
Pig with red ribbon
And a cow and a cow.
Marry me and sum her.
One is won is two to gather.

Kathleen M. (Kate) Oliver is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida. She has published articles on Chaucer and Swift, and is currently working on her dissertation and a social-history, both of which concern women in eighteenth-century England..

Copyright Kate Oliver 1998.

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