26
Then first she told her father dear
The deed that she had done,
And next she told her mother dear
Concerning false Sir John.
27
'If this be true, fair May Collin,
That you have told to me,
Before I either eat or drink
This false Sir John I'll see.'
28
Away they went with one consent,
At dawning of the day,
Until they came to Carline Sands,
And there his body lay.
29
His body tall, by that great fall,
By the waves tossed to and fro,
The diamond ring that he had on
Was broke in pieces two.
30
And they have taken up his corpse
To yonder pleasant green,
And there they have buried false Sir John,
For fear he should be seen.
E.
J. H. Dixon, Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, p. 74.
1
An outlandish knight came from the north lands,
And he came a-wooing to me;
He told me he'd take me unto the north lands,
And there he would marry me.
2
'Come, fetch me some of your father's gold,
And some of your mother's fee,
And two of the best nags out of the stable,
Where they stand thirty and three.'
3
She fetched him some of her father's gold,
And some of her mother's fee,
And two of the best nags out of the stable,
Where they stood thirty and three.