the sweetheart of Robin Redbreast.
“Robin promised Jenny, if she would be his wife, she should ‘feed on cherry-pie and drink currant-wineʹ; and he says:—
‘Iʹll dress you like a goldfinch,
Or any peacock gay;
So, dearest Jen, if youʹll be mine,
Let us appoint the day.ʹ
Jenny replies:—
‘Cherry-pie is very nice,
And so is currant wine;
But I must wear my plain brown gown,
And never go too fine.ʹ”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.