So he flung it away with a very gladness.

And the baron died—and the bridegroom, well,—

Unlucky that bridegroom, sooth!—to tell

Of him there is nothing. The baron died;

The last of the Strongbows he, gramercy!

And the Clare estate with its wealth and its pride

Devolved to the Bloets, Walter or Percy.

Ten years and a score thereafter. And they

Ransacked the old castle and mark!—one day

In a lonesome tower uprummaged a chest