Georgian Courtship: love and marriage in 18th-century England
You're Dead to Me
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Strut, Cotton Trader
So young, so blooming. It's a void of art. A certain conquest makes of every heart. So sweet and air, such dignity of mine. Let every word and every action show. What steps you follow, what paths pursue? Pursue? And shoe of pursues, how they used to say it. Beautifully done. I thought to be fair to the people of Birmingham, I would stop. Now he won't do it again. He's from Derby. But this is his poetry. My love, your young, study with nicest care. Make yourself as wise as you are fair. Good sense you have, let virtue be your guide. Well, hand in
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