For to keep you in a lady’s life.’

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Shropshire Folk-Lore, edited by Charlotte Sophia Burne, p. 537; as recited in 1881 by Mrs Dudley, of Much Wenlock.

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The king he wrote a letter,

And sealëd it with gold,

And sent it to Lor Derwentwater,

To read it if he could.