“Last week, a couple of lovers went to a church in Sheffield to be married. In that awful crisis of the ceremony when the minister asked the man – ‘Wilt thou take this woman to be thy wedded wife?’ – ‘I’ll consider on it’ answered the bridegroom; and coolly taking his hat, quitted the church, the bride, and the ceremony at once, and no consideration could induce him to return.”
– The Sporting Magazine, July 1800
