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THE PRETTY MILKMAID by MOTHER GOOSE

First Line: WHERE ARE YOU GOING, MY PRETTY MAID?
Last Line: "NOBODY ASKED YOU, SIR,"" SHE SAID."
Subject(s): COURTSHIP;
"WHERE are you going, my pretty maid?"
"I am going a-milking, sir," she said.
"May I go with you, my pretty maid?"
"You're kindly welcome,sir," she said.
"What is your father, my pretty maid?"
"My father's a farmer, sir," she said.
"What is your fortune, my pretty maid?"
"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.
"Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid."
"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.


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