O grant me yet a little space,
That I may be well and live.’
16.
‘O never will I forget, forgive,
So long as I have breath;
I’ll dance above your green, green grave
Where you do lie beneath.’
FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM
The Text is from a broadside in the Douce Ballads, with a few unimportant corrections from other stall-copies, as printed by Percy and Ritson.