And thereon began most sweetly to play,
And after a lesson was played two or three,
He strained out this song most delicately:—
"A beggars daughter did dwell on a green,
Who for her beauty might well be a queen,
A blithe bonny lass, and dainty was she,
And many one called her pretty Bessee.
"Her father he had no goods nor no lands,
But begged for a penny all day with his hands,
And yet for her marriage gave thousands three,