‘God bless all the nobles we have in our land,

And send the Church of England may flourish still and stand;

For I’ve injured no king, no kingdom, nor no crown,

But I wish that every honest man might enjoy his own.’


B

Llewellynn Jewitt, Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire, 1867, p. 55, from a broad-sheet.

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Good people give attention to a story you shall hear:

Between the king and my lord Delamere,