Said, “Beichan has broke his vow to thee.”

So she’s set her foot on good ship-board,

And turnd her back on her own countrie.

She sailed east, she sailed west,

Till to fair England’s shore she came;

Where a bonny shepherd she espied,

Feeding his sheep upon the plain.

“What news, what news, thou bonny shepherd?

What news hast thou to tell to me?”

“Such news I hear, ladie,” he says,