Open my left side, and let my babe free.’
8
He opened her left side, and then all was oer,
And the best flower in England will flourish no more.
F
Notes and Queries, Second Series, XI, 131; sung by an illiterate nursemaid “some forty years since” (1861).
1
Queen Jane lies in labour six weeks or more,
Till the women were tired, go see her no more:
‘Oh women, oh women, if women you be,