BLUNTNESS, OR ROUGHNESS OE 
MANNERS. 
When the priest ' 
Should ask, if Katharine should he his -srife, 
“ Ay, hy gogs-wouns,” quoth he; and swore so loud. 
That, all amazed, the priest let fall the hook; 
And, as he stooped again to take it up, 
The mad-hrained hridegroom took him such a cuff, 
That down fell priest and hook, and hook and priest; 
But after many ceremonies done. 
He calls for wine : A health, quoth he, as if 
He had been abroad carousing to his mates 
After a storm : quaffed off the muscadel, 
And threw the sops all in the sexton’s face! 
Having no other reason, — 
But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, 
And seemed to ask him sops as he was drinking. 
This done, he took the bride about the neck; 
And kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, 
That, at the parting, all the church did echo. 
Shaxspeake. 
II 
