Nursery Rhyme. CCCCXLVI. Love And Matrimony.

        [This is part of a little work called 'Authentic Memoirs of the little Man and the little Maid, with some interesting particulars of their lives,' which I suspect is more modern than the following. Walpole printed a small broadside containing a different version.]

            There was a little man,
            And he woo'd a little maid,
    And he said, "little maid, will you wed, wed, wed?
            I have little more to say,
            Than will you, yea or nay,
    For least said is soonest mended-ded, ded, ded."

            The little maid replied,
            Some say a little sighed,
    "But what shall we have for to eat, eat, eat?
            Will the love that you're so rich in
            Make a fire in the kitchen?
    Or the little god of Love turn the spit, spit, spit?"

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