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" A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known ; Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own. "
Memoirs of Her Late Royal Highness Charlotte-Augusta of Wales, and of Saxe ... - Page 322
by Thomas Green - 1818 - 576 pages
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The Great and Eccentric Characters of the World, Their Lives and Their Deeds ...

Biography - 1877 - 814 pages
...thought any way, But continued true and in desire, As when you joined hands in holy quire : If to these conditions, without all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom,...
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The Knot Tied: Marriage Ceremonies of All Nations

William Tegg - Marriage - 1877 - 428 pages
...effect following, to wit :— Since to these conditions without any fear, Of your own accord you do freely swear ; A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it away with love and good leave ; For this is the custom of Dunmow well known, — Tho' the pleasure...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...quire. WIFE. If to these conditions, without all feare, Of your own accord you will freely sweare, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear...good leave : For this is our custom at Dunmow well knowne : Though the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own. Form of the Oalli taktn by those at Dunmmu...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 56

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1878 - 978 pages
...thus sworn, the official says: "Since to these conditions, without any fear, Of your own accord you do freely swear, A whole gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it away with love and good leave ; , For this is the custom of Dunmow well known — Though the pleasure...
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Pittsburgh Legal Journal, Volume 28

Law - 1881 - 496 pages
...thought any way ; But continued true and in desire, As when you Joyned hands in holy Quire. If to these conditions, without all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A Garnon of Bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with loveund good leave; For this is our custom...
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Tourist's guide to Essex

Edward Walford - 1882 - 178 pages
...way ; But continued true in thought and desire, As when you joined hands in holy quire. If to these conditions without all fear, Of your own accord you...leave ; For this is our custom at Dunmow well known ; Tho' the pleasure be ours, the bacon's your own." The fortunate couple were afterwards made the objects...
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Tourist's Guide to Essex: With Some Preliminary Remarks as to Its Early ...

Edward Walford - Essex (England) - 1882 - 186 pages
...way ; But continued true in thought and desire, As when you joined hands in holy quire. If to these conditions without all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A whole gammon of oacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave ; For this is our custom at Duumow...
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The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed, Volume 5

National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 pages
...these conditions without all fear, Ot'vour own accord you will freely swear, A wliolo trummtvt f/bocon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good leave; For thU is our custom at Dunniow well known: Tho' tlu- I'U'Asure be ours, the bacon's your own." I TH*...
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Courtship and marriage customs of many nations, Volume 1

R A. Melsom - 1885 - 40 pages
...any way ; But continued true, and in desire, As when you joined hands in holy wedlock ; If to these conditions, without all fear, Of your own accord, you will freely swear, A gammon of bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with love and good life ; For this ie our custom...
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History of the English Landed Interest: Its Customs, Laws and ..., Volume 2

Russell Montague Garnier - Agriculture - 1892 - 434 pages
...Quire. If to these conditions, without all fear, Of your own accord you will freely swear, A Gamon of Bacon you shall receive, And bear it hence with...this is our custom at Dunmow well known, Though the sport be ours, the Bacon's your own." The customs pertaining to the Honour of Tutbury involve the assembling...
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