But heard the roaring of the sea.

8.

8.2 ‘garden’: ‘golden green, if my copy is right.’ —Child.

O they rade on, and further on,

Until they came to a garden green:

‘Light down, light down, ye ladie free,

Some of that fruit let me pull to thee.’

9.

‘O no, O no, True Thomas,’ she says,

‘That fruit maun not be touched by thee,