ABSTRACT
Or else I'll set your house on fire, If better cannot be.'
[ Letter from S to H : sent : received
Marriage of S + Br: execution ~--Br discovers S pregnant by H
His lady is grief-stricken:
Sophia Hay, Sophia Hay, o bonny Sophia was her name,
and
Would mess you up in scuttle-dishes, Syne bid us sup till we were fou,
In like fashion, the arrival of medical practitioners results in this stanza:
which is a far cry from Mrs Brown's traditional o he's bent his bow, an shot the deer,
Because you love Brown Robin, And never would love me.
