St Peter's Fair

DESCRIPTION: She asks if he remembers -- she won't tell -- what they did coming from St Peter's Fair. He says if she'll marry him he'll buy her a spinning wheel and they'll sit by the fireside, not wanting for "milk nor meal"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1828 (Lyle-Andrew-CrawfurdsCollectionVolume2)
KEYWORDS: love marriage sex food dialog nonballad
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Bord))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lyle-Andrew-CrawfurdsCollectionVolume2 156, "St Peter's Fair" (1 text)
Roud #15112
File: LyCr2156

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