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The trumpets they sounded, the cannons did roar,

But the flower of fair England shall flourish no more.

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D

Robert Bell’s Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, p. 113; “taken down from the singing of a young gipsy girl, to whom it had descended orally through two generations.”

1

Queen Jane was in travail for six weeks or more,