FOR CHILDREN. 191

‘“* To-morrow is our wedding-day,
And we will then repair
Unto the Bell at Edmonton,!
All in a chaise and pair.

‘ My sister, and my sister’s child,
Myself, and children three,
Will fill the chaise, so you must ride
On horseback after we.”

He soon replied, “I do admire
Of womankind but one ;

And you are she, my dearest dear,
Therefore it shall be done.

« T am a linen-draper bold,
As all the world doth know ;
And my good friend, the calender,”
Will lend his horse to go.”

Quoth3 Mistress Gilpin, “ That’s well said ;
And for that‘ wine is dear,

We will be furnished with our own,
Which is both bright and clear.”

John Gilpin kissed his loving wife ;
O’erjoyed was he to find,

That, though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.

1 Edmonton—a village in the northern suburbs of Londor.
2 Calender—put for calenderer—one whose trade it is
to give cloth a smooth and glossy surface by a mechanica?

process,
3 Quoth—says, or sa‘d.
* For that—because.