THE SAILOR'S FLEET WEDDING ENTERTAINMENT.
The Context to this is a companion Engraving of "The Sailor's Fleet Wedding Entertainment," which most aptly illustrates Keith's description, but the poetry attached to it will scarcely bear modern reproduction.
But, if a poetical account of a Fleet Wedding is needed, it may be found in "The Bunter's Wedding."
"Good people attend, I'll discover,
A Wedding that happen'd of late,
I cannot tell why we should smother,
The weddings of poor more than great;
'Twixt Ben of the Borough so pretty,
Who carries a basket, 'tis said,