III.

SWEET MARJORAM.

"Sweet Marjoram! Sweet Marjoram!"

(Sang an old dame standing on the kerb);

"You may hear a thousand ballads,

You may pick a thousand salads,

Ere you light on such another herb.

Sweet Marjoram! Sweet Marjoram!

(Let its virtues evermore be sung);

Oh, 'twill make your Sunday clo'es gay,