Hang fifty siller bells and nine.

True Thomas he pull’d aff his cap,

And louted low down to his knee;

“All hail, thou mighty Queen of Heaven!

For thy peer on earth I never did see.”—

“O no, O no, Thomas,” she said,

“That name does not belang to me;

I am but the Queen of fair elfland,

That am hither come to visit thee.”

“Harp and carp, Thomas,” she said;