While poor men are starving with hunger and cold;

And if they hold on as they have begun,

They’ll make little England pay dear for a king.’


C

Llewellynn Jewitt’s Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire, p. 57. “Another version, which I have in MS., has, besides many minor variations, these verses.”

1

O the Duchess of Devonshire was standing hard by;

Upon her dear husband she cast her lovely eye:

‘Oh, fie upon treachery! there’s been treachery I say,