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

by Unknown

"But if that he wax wild anon

I shall him soon foresee;

And cut them off by one and one,

As time shall then serve me."

The first fray here now have you heard,

The second doth ensue;

And how much mischief afterward

Upon these murders grew.

And how the mischief he contriv'd