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a. Broadside in the Rawlinson collection, 4to, 566, fol. 193, Wood, E. 25, fol. 15. b. Pepys, III, 19, No 17. c. Douce, II, fol. 168 b. d. Pills to Purge Melancholy, IV, 130, ed. 1719.
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There was a lady of the North Country,
Lay the bent to the bonny broom
And she had lovely daughters three.
Fa la la la, fa la la la ra re
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There was a knight of noble worth
Which also lived in the North.
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The knight, of courage stout and brave,
A wife he did desire to have.
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He knocked at the ladie's gate
One evening when it was late.
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The eldest sister let him in,
And pin'd the door with a silver pin.
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The second sister she made his bed,
And laid soft pillows under his head.
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The youngest daughter that same night,
She went to bed to this young knight.
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And in the morning, when it was day,
These words unto him she did say: