Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLIII. Love And Matrimony.

    Tommy Trot, a man of law,
    Sold his bed and lay upon straw:
    Sold the straw and slept on grass,
    To buy his wife a looking-glass.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLVIII. Love And Matrimony.

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