"On Guildford-green I will thee meet;
No man nor boy shall come with me."210
"As I am a man," said Tommy Pots,
"I'le have as few in my company."
And thus staid the marriage was,
The bride unmarried went home again;
Then to her maids fast did she laugh,215
And in her heart she was full fain.
"My maidens all," the lady said,
"That ever wait on me this day,
Now let us all kneel [lowly] down,
And for Tommy Pots let us all pray.220
"If it be his fortune the better to win,
As I trust to God in trinity,
Ile make him the flower of all his kin,
For the young Lord Arundel he shall be."
THE THIRD PART.
When Tom Pots came home again,225
To try for his love he had but a week;
For sorrow, God wot, he need not care,
For four days that he fel sick.
With that his master to him came,
Says, "Pray thee, Tom Pots, tell me if thou doubt
Whether thou hast gotten thy gay lady,231
Or thou must go thy love without."
"O master, yet it is unknown;
Within these two days well try'd it must be;
He is a lord, I am but a serving-man,235
I fear I shall lose her with poverty."
"I prethee, Tom Pots, get thee on thy feet,
My former promises kept shall be;
As I am a lord in Scotland fair,
Thou'st never lose her with poverty.240