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; . . . [14 more lines] |
Generic Title | Connecticut Gazette-New London |
Date | 1768.04.22 |
Publisher | Green, Timothy |
City, State | New London, CT |
Year | 1768 |
Bibliography | B0013792 |