The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111698   Message #2375778
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Jun-08 - 04:04 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Pleasant and Delightful
Subject: RE: Pleasant and delightful
One of the broadsides at the Bodleian collection has a better rhyme that the one Nutty posted above. From Johnson Ballads 1161:

Then the ring from her finger she instantly drew,
Take this dearest Jemmy, and more there's for you;