9
'Ride on, ride on,' said the next man,
'For lo! the bride she comes bleeding on.'
* * * * *
10
'What will you leave your mother dear?'
'My heart's best love for ever and aye.'
11
'What will ye leave your sister Anne?'
'This wedding garment that I have on.'
12
'What will ye leave your brother John's wife?'
'Grief and sorrow all the days of her life.'
13
'What will ye leave your brother John?'
'The highest gallows to hang him on.'
14
'What will ye leave your brother John's son?'
'The grace of God to make him a man.'
K.
Notes and Queries, 4th S., IV, 517, as "sung in Cheshire amongst the people" in the last century. T. W.
1
There were three ladies playing at ball,
Gilliver, Gentle, and Rosemary
There came three knights and looked over the wall.
Sing O the red rose and the white lilly