Happy Family (I), The

DESCRIPTION: "I will sing you a song of a settler bold, Who lived at Botany Bay" and marries a tranportee wife, "The Pride of Botany Bay"; "The first of her virtues was beauty... and the 102nd was chastity." She "has friends" dearer than her husband. It's his folly
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1964 (Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland)
KEYWORDS: transportation marriage betrayal
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Anderson-FarewellToOldEngland, pp. 129-130, "The Happy Family" (1 text)
File: AnFa129

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