I feel bound to point out some ambivalence in the first example: that the captain who fell in love with the transported prostitute in Van Dieman's Land, "& married her out of hand" got a dodgy bargain thru such "marrying in haste"; surely he would have "repented at leisure" when, as the verse goes on to state, she continued to "give us all [i.e. all her fellow-transports] good usage" for the remainder of the voyage. I have always felt that stanza to contain something of a warning against 'marrying out of hand'.

Who agrees?

~Michael~