Humorous Wedding Speech

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I stand here today, full of grief and guilt, that my beautiful wife, the daughter of Scotland, died here a cálend ago because of my erroneous doing. Today we have assembled here at, Dunkland cemetery to honour and pay our respects to this adoring wife, nurturing mother and daughter of Scotland.
My wife was the epitome of loyalty, faithfulness and kindness but because of my selfishness and cunningness my beautiful wife tragically died. She was and still is my queen, filled with warmth, kindness and benevolence; unlike that cruel, disheartened “tyrant (’s)” wife. My queen would have moulded “the dunnest smoke of hell”, “sink(ing) beneath the yoke” into the shining, noble country Scotland once was. She would have “drown(ed) the weeds” instead of letting them grow and shrivel up our whole country. If only I didn’t leave her in Scotland, she would be here today. …show more content…

She was a hen who couldn’t leave her nest. Even when I “…fled to Scotland”, “giv(ing my) obedience where tis truly owed”, she was looking after her chicks. My wife and chicks were a team, “her young ones in her nest, against the owl”. They fought hard, against the tyrant, but their strength and willpower wasn’t enough and “the weak, poor innocent lamb(s) (were offered up) T’ appease an angry god”. “All my pretty chickens and their dam… fell (at one) swoop”; I knew that they were gone, a mother with many beautiful chicks. Their “ghosts… (Still) haunt me” and the love she gave her chicks, could no longer be present. But “heaven preserve (her)”, for she deserves to be alive because of all the endearment she gives her chicks. If only I didn’t leave Scotland, she would be here

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