The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire / Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary

by Unknown

Lay dead upon the plain.

"Hold thy hand, good fellow," said the curtall fryer,

"Thy master and I will agree;

And we will have new orders taken

With all the hast may be."

"If thou wilt forsake fair Fountaines Dale,

And Fountaines Abbey free,

Every Sunday throwout the yeere,

A noble shall be thy fee: