To drown the young infant that moment with speed.
Says he, "If you live, you must needs be my wife;
But I am resolved to bereave you of life:
For 'till you are dead I no other can have,
Therefore you shall lie in a watery grave."
In speaking these words, that moment, they say,
He flung the sweet babe in the river straightway;
And being well pleased when this he had done,
Did leap on his horse and quickly rode home.
But mind how good fortune did for her provide,