Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon
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Jennifer: I'll have this flasket of scent. Joyce: I'll have this looking-glass. Jessica: And I this necklet of beads. Jane: A pair of shoe-buckles, if you please. Joan: This bunch of ribbons for me. Joscelyn: Have you a corset-lace of yellow silk? The Gypsy: Here's for you and you. No love-charms, no. Here's for you and you and you. I warrant, no love-charms! Ay, I've a yellow lace, twill keep you in as tight as jealousy, my pretty. Out upon all love-charms!--And what will she have that sits crouched in the Well-House? "Oh, Gypsy!" cried Joscelyn, "have you among your charms one that will make a maid fall OUT of love?" "Nay, nay," said the Gypsy, growing suddenly grave. "That is a charm takes more black art than I am mistress of. I know indeed of but one remedy. Is the case so bad?" "She has been shut into the Well-House to cure her of loving," said Joscelyn, "and in six months she has scarcely ceased to weep, and has never uttered a word. If you know the physic that shall heal her of her foolishness, I pray you tell us of it. For it is extremely |
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