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BPB.771.043
9 Dec 1771:13 (746)
London, Sept. 12. We hear from Castlecary, that a few weeks
ago, a young man who had been paying his addressed to a
young woman for two years by past, at length obtained her
consent to marry him. . . next day she set off attended by
all her friends and neighbours to the number of 50 or more
to meet the bridegroom, who, on their near approach,
suddenly altered his mind, slipt out at the back door, and
ran off into the adjacent woods. The bride no-ways moved at
this disappointment, immediately dispatched some of her
friends to the woods in quest of him, and in the mean time
ordered the music to play up, Because He Was a Bonny Lad, I
Bad Him Come Again. Finding on their return that the
bridegroom could not be found, she concluded the
entertainment with uncommon spirit, by leading down a
country dance, to the tune of I Lost My Love and I Care Na.
The company were so taken with the bride's surprising gaiety
on this trying occasion, that they raised a handsome
subscription for her.
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