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"SO back you have come from the town, Nan, dear! / And have you seen him there, or near- / That soldier of mine- / Who long since promised to meet me here?"
"-O yes, Nell: from the town I come, / And have seen your lover on sick-leave home- / That soldier of yours- / Who swore to meet you, or Strike-him-dumb;
"But has kept himself of late away; / Yet,-in short, he's coming, I heard him say- / That lover of yours- / To this very spot on this very day."
"-Then I'll wait, I'll wait, through wet or dry! / I'll give him a goblet brimming high- / This lover of mine- / And not of complaint one word or sigh!"
"-Nell, him I have chanced so much to see, / That-he has grown the lover of me! - / That lover of yours- / And it's here our meeting is planned to be. "