Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FARE THEE WELL, by THOMAS HOOD


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First Line: Before our banns be published like a tax
Last Line: "oh now -- or fare thee well!"" -- theodosius."
Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BEFORE our banns be published like a tax,
Ask'd on the portals of St. Mary Axe,
If thou wilt marry me -- then prythee tell --
Oh now -- or fare thee well!

Think of old maids of seventy -- fourscore,
Fourscore old women at the temple's door,
Those that can read, and those that learn to spell --
Oh now -- or fare thee well!

Suppose our names a history -- suppose
Our love forepicked to pieces, like a rose
Shed blushing all abroad -- my Isabel!
Oh now -- or fare thee well!" -- THEODOSIUS.





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