And dat’s me Lady Isabel.’
16.
‘Yees tak your lady, an’ yees gaeng hame,
An’ yees be king ower a’ your ain.’
17.
He’s taen his lady, an’ he’s gaen hame,
An’ noo he’s king ower a’ his ain.
THE BAFFLED KNIGHT
The Text is from Ravenscroft’s Deuteromelia (1609), reprinted almost verbatim in Tom Durfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy.