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gayest lass Each younker slack
Thy steps were graceful on the village-green, As tho' thou had'st some courtly lady been: At church or market, still the gayest lass, Each younker slack'd his speed to see thee pass.
— from Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Joanna Baillie

gave Long ere ye saw
To us Leucippus these his daughters gave, Long ere ye saw them: they are ours on oath.
— from Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus

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