“'O gin I find anither ladye,'
He said wi' sighs and tears,
'I wot my coortin' sall not be
Anither thirty years:

For gin I find a ladye gay,
Exactly to my taste,
I'll pop the question, aye or nay,
In twenty years at maist.”

—  Lewis Carroll

The Lang Coortin, last two stanzas
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

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