ballinacrasy

Updated: August 4, 2026

I spake it in jest." "Then you are not in jest, but in downright sober earnest? Ha!" said Lady Delacour, with an arch look, "I did not know it was already come to this with you." And her ladyship, turning to her piano-forte, played "There was a young man in Ballinacrasy, Who wanted a wife to make him unasy, And thus in gentle strains he spoke her, Arrah, will you marry me, my dear Ally Croker?"

Maria Edgeworth - Tales and Novels — Volume 03