And then she shall be a true lover of mine.
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‘And now I have answered your questions three,
And I hope you’ll answer as many for me;
And then thou shalt be a true lover of mine.’
Rev. S. Baring-Gould gives me these variations, from the West of England:
‘O tell her to bleach it on yonder fresh grass,
Where never a foot or a hoof did pass.’
‘O tell him to thresh it in yonder barn,
That hangs to the sky by a thread of yarn.’