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> The "bridegroom" is the rob[b]in' part, following from "Hare
> was a thief," and "Eskimo Nell" cunningly loops back to the wylie
> one of ill & odd lore, donut? Dunno about Knox myself--if it's an
> opportunity, it's always nix doar.
The quatrain (I think) is from the Bridie play (and who'd trust an
Edinburgh physician on anything?)
I have in my head, "Wylie, beguile ye", but goodness know where it came
from.
[AH!!! Some of those poems which slagged Walt Ralegh.]
RH.
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