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Borage. 
BLUNTNESS, OR ROUGHNESS OF 
MANNERS. 
When the priest 
Should ask, if Katharine should be his wife, 
“ Ay, by gogs-wouns,’ quoth he ; and swore so loud, 
That, all amazed, the priest let fall the book ; 
And, as he stooped again to take it up, 
The mad-brained bridegroom took him such a cuff, 
That down fell priest and book, and book 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. 
SHAKSPEARE. 


