“When will you be back, Lord Lovel?” she said;

“Oh! when will you come back?” said she;

“In a year or two—or three, at the most,

I’ll return to my fair Nancy-cy,

I’ll return to my fair Nancy.”

But he had not been gone a year and a day,

Strange countries for to see,

When languishing thoughts came into his head,

Lady Nancy Belle he would go see, see,