Citation - Connecticut Gazette-New London: 1768.04.22

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Index Entry Dunmow, author of lyric [beg] You shall swear by the custom of your 
Location London 
Citation
CG-NL.768.015
22 Apr 1768:41 (232)
[Poem comes from Dunmow, which says that anyone who takes
the following oath of marital bliss shall be given a flitch
of bacon.  No one had yet won the free bacon]
  You shall swear by the custom of your confession
  That you never made any nuptial transgression,
  Since you were married man and wife, 
  By household brawls, or a contentious strife;
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Generic Title Connecticut Gazette-New London 
Date 1768.04.22 
Publisher Green, Timothy 
City, State New London, CT 
Year 1768 
Bibliography B0013792
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