If I lose your fair body, I’ll lose your baby too.’

4

She wept and she waild, and she wrung her hands sore;

O the flour of England must flurish no more!

She wept and she waild till she fell in a swoond,

They opend her two sides, and the baby was found.

5

The baby was christened with joy and much mirth,

Whilst poor Queen Jane’s body lay cold under earth:

There was ringing and singing and mourning all day,