I’ll evermore weep and sigh;

For thee I only wisht to live,

For thee I wish to dye.”

(Eleven stanzas here omitted.)

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“O, stay me not, thou holy friar;

O stay me not, I pray;

No drizzly rain that falls on me,

Can wash my fault away.”

“Yet stay, fair lady, turn again,