They had noe sooner super sett,
and after said the grace
but the traitor Captaine Carre
was light about the place.
Give over thy house, thou lady gay
I will make thee a band [i.e. bond]
all night within mine armes thoust lye,
to-morrow be the heyre of my land.
Ile not give over my house, shee said
neither for ladds nor man,
nor yet for traitor Captaine Carre,
Untill my lord come home.
But reach me my pistoll pee [i.e. piece]
and charge you well my gunne,
Ile shoote at the bloody bucher
the lord of westerton.
She stood uppon her castle wall
and let the bulletts flee,
and where shee mist....
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But then bespake the little child
that sate on the nurses knee,
saies, mother deere, give ore this house
for the smoake it smoothers me.
I wold give all my gold, my childe,
soe wold I doe all my fee,
for one blast of the westerne wind
to blow the smoke from thee.
But when shee saw the fier
came flaming ore her head,
She tooke them upp her children two
Sayes, babes we all beene dead!
But Adam then he fired the house,
a sorrowfull sight to see:
now hath he burned this lady faire
and eke her children three