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Peter Faultless to his brother Simon

tales of night, in rhyme, and other poems. By the author of Night [i.e. Ebenezer Elliott]
Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)

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PETER FAULTLESS TO HIS BROTHER SIMON.
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TALES OF NIGHT,
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MATRIMONIAL MAGIC.
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SECOND NUPTIALS.
  
INTRODUCTION.
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VIII. THE LOVER'S SONG.
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XII. THE POET'S SONG.
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XVIII. THE BRIDEGROOM'S SONG.
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XXI. JACOB'S SONG.
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XXIII. THE STRANGER'S SONG.
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POEMS.

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The fiddle's shriek was superseded:
The tale, the joke, the laugh succeeded,
And scandal stoop'd at folly's ear.
Soft-touching, with his finger's end,
Her, who, erewhile, was Mary Bray,
Said Mathew then unto his dear:
“How strange that my expected friend
Came not to give the bride away!
What stays his coming? cans't thou say?”
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