“Nay now, what faith?” said Alice the nurse;

“The man will cleave unto his right.”

“And he shall have it,” the lady replied,

“Tho’ I should die to-night.”

“Yet give one kiss to your mother dear!

Alas, my Child, I sinned for thee!”

“O Mother, Mother, Mother,” she said,

“So strange it seems to me.

“Yet here’s a kiss for my mother dear,