Part ff. 15–17 - ‘A Gentleman on the late Anniversary of his wedding day presented his Wife with a ring, & the following lines’ (by Samuel Bishop)

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Add. MS a/738/ff. 15–17

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‘A Gentleman on the late Anniversary of his wedding day presented his Wife with a ring, & the following lines’ (by Samuel Bishop)

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First line: ‘Thee Mary with this ring I wed’.

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Publication note

Printed under the same title in The New Founding Hospital for Wit (1784 ed.), vol. v, pp. 32–3, where the verses are attributed to the same author as the ‘Verses sent by a Gentleman to his Lady, with a Present of a Knife’, which they follow (cf. pp. 64r–read more

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This description was created by A. C. Green in 2025.