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She blooded him in the vein of the arm,

And lock’d him up in the room ;

There did he bleed all the live-long day,

Untill the next day at noon.

He then bethought him of a casement door,

Thinking for to be gone ; [329]

He was so weak he could not leap,

Nor he could not get down.

He then bethought him of his bugle-horn,