Why, of all the names of the Damon and Sylvia class, _Philander_,[48] which, according to derivation, should mean fondness for the male sex, came to be a proverbial expression for an amorous person, and contributed to the English language a verb (to philander) we cannot say. Children's intelligence made wild work of the word. A New England variation was, "Come, _Lysanders_;" and in Pennsylvania, on the Maryland border, the first line has been ingeniously distorted into "_Cumberland city-town-boys_" marching! Cumberland being a town in the latter state. No. 10. _Marriage._ (1.) By this name was known in Massachusetts, at the beginning of the century, an elaborate dance (for such, though practised in a Puritan community, it really was) which has a very decided local flavor. Partners having been chosen, the girl says-- "Come, my dearest partner, and join both heart and hand; You want you a wife, and I want me a man. So married we will be, if we can agree, We'll march down together, so happy are we." The partners now separate, the lad saying-- "Now I must part, and leave you alone, So fare you well, my true love, till I return." The maid replies-- "I mourn, I mourn, for that is the cry, I'm left all alone, and I'm sure I shall die." But, after walking round, rejoins her partner, who welcomes her-- "Oh, here comes my love, and how do you do? And how have you been since I parted with you?" The pair then address the row-- "There is a scene secure from all harm, Please to give us joy by the raising of the arm." The other players, who stand each lad opposite his lass, raise arms, and the couple walk down under the arch so formed, pausing at the foot-- "Now we are married, and never more to part, Please to give a kiss from the bottom of the heart." And the game proceeds with the next couple. _Scituate, Mass._ (about 1800). (2.) No better as respects poetry, but with more evidence of old English origin, is the following game, in which couples circle in a ring about two chairs, from time to time changing partners. We have not been clearly informed of the way of playing, but presume that at the time of the change the youth or girl in the ring must select a mate. "On the green carpet here we stand, Take your true love in your hand; Take the one whom you profess To be the one whom you love best." A change of partners. "Very well done, said Johnny Brown, Is this the way to London town? Stand ye here, stand ye there, Till your true love doth appear." A mate is finally chosen, and the ring sings-- "Oh, what a beautiful choice you've made! Don't you wish you'd longer stayed? [Give her a kiss, and send her away, And tell her she can no longer stay."[49]] _Salem, Mass._