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On Sunday last as a couple were marrying in the parish church of St Dunstan in the West, the bridegroom, a journeyman carpenter, after repeating the words, With this ring I thee wed, shook his fist at the bride, and added, And with this I'll beat thy head. The clergyman upon this stopt, and reproved him severely for his irreverent behaviour; but the man making a submission, and declaring he meant no harm, and spoke it only for the sake of the rhyme, the minister went on with the ceremony.
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