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You may say, if you please, Johnny Bull, that our girls / Are crazy to marry your dukes and your earls; / But I've heard that the maids of your own little isle / Greet bachelor lords with a favoring smile.
Nay, titles, 'tis said in defense of our fair, / Are popular here because popular there; / And for them our ladies persistently go / Because 'tis exceedingly English, you know.