MARRIAGE IN VERSE.
AN ILLINOIS INNOVATION. Spurning prosy legal formulas, a justice of the peace has married a young couple at' Aurora, Illinois, in verse. Addressing the bridegroom, the magistrate said:—“Do you this lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honour and love and keep her well, from the marriage hour to the funeral bed? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, and drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss.” The groom: “ 1 do.” Then turning the bride, the magistrate said:—“Now, sweet lady, do you say you will promise to obey? Love your husband, honour him, for his sake risk life and limb? Never look at other men, pledge yourself to him; and then, faithful for the rest of life, be his gentle loving wife? ” The bride; “I do.” The magistrate: “Then, by the law of Illinois, you two are wed; may all be joy, the justice you I give, you’re wed, the while you both shall live.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21255, 9 February 1931, Page 16
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187MARRIAGE IN VERSE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21255, 9 February 1931, Page 16
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