When I was sick, and very sick,

Sick I was, and like to die,

I drew me near to my stair-head,

And I heard my own lord lichtly me.

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‘Come doun, come doun, thou Earl of March,

Come doun, come doun and dine with me;

I’ll set thee on a chair of gowd,

And treat thee kindly on my knee!’

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