The merry charmers, with their brazen tongues

The merry charmers, with their brazen tongues, Make efforts to chime forth their favourite songs,— Till the bold ringers are inform’d—that now They must await until the nuptial vow Is sanction’d by the law. Now every eye Is bent towards the road, where they espy Sir Humphrey’s carriage coming up the “green;” And hail the occupants, who are therein: Then, close behind, another coach appears; The villagers send forth unbounded cheers;— They doff their neckerchiefs, and aught beside Spontaneously to greet the beauteous Bride: Sir Edward follows, with two handsome “greys,” Outvieing in stature old Sir Humphrey’s “bays.”