Then with a shepherd would abide;

Yet loved me still, for I have tried

Her love, as gold is purified!”

till she begged him not to sing it, but so gently and submissively, that he could not resist. So he lifted her on to her palfrey, and the whole noble train moved on towards his father’s palace, where she lived by his side all her life, a model of a devoted wife.


[1] Dear little ring. [↑]

[2] Good little shepherd. [↑]

[3] Sir Country-bumpkin. [↑]

[4] Little princess. [↑]

[5] Child. [↑]