Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXXXIV. Love And Matrimony.

    Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,[*]
        They were two bonny lasses:
    They built their house upon the lea,
        And covered it with rashes.

    Bessy kept the garden gate,
        And Mary kept the pantry:
    Bessy always had to wait,
        While Mary lived in plenty.

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