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SONGSTER. 88
No knife can cut cur love in two."
Fol lol de riddle lol de la!
But scissors cut as well as knives,
Fol lol, &c.
And quita unsartin's all our Uves;
Fol lol, &c.
The day they were to have been wed,
Fate's scissors cut poor Giles's thread.
So they could not be mar-ri-ed^
Fol lol, &c.
Poor Molly laid her down to weep,
Fol lol, &c.
And cried herself quite fast asleep,
Fol lol, &c.
When standing ail by the bed-post,
A figure tall her^ight engross'd.
And it cried, *-1 beez Gil(;S Scroggins' ghost !**
Fol lol, &c/
The ghost, it said, all so-lemn-Iy,
Fol lol, &c.
" 0, Molly, you must go with I,
Fol lol, &c.
All to the grave your love to cool;"
Says she, ** I am not dead, you fool!'
Says the ghost, says he, " Vy, that's no rule."
Fol lol, &c.
The ghost he seiz'd her all so grim,
Fol lol.