buxom
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A soldier and a sailor, A tinker and a tailor, Had once a doubtful strife, sir, To make a maid a wife, sir, Whose name was Buxom Joan.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
The poem is like the nymph whom he addresses, Buxom, blithe, and debonaire.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
Before the Reign of Buxom Dido, When Beasts could speak as well as I do; Lyons and we convers'd together, And marry'd among one another.
From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de
Don Quixot, Part the Third, with the Marriage of Mary the Buxom, 1669; this met with no success.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus
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