An she stood by the sea:
‘Ye shaped me ance an unshemly shape,
An ye’s never mare shape me.’
15
He has sent to the wood
For hathorn an fun,
An he has tane that gay lady,
An ther he did her burne.
Written without division into stanzas or verses.
32. comes ea (aye); but, on repetition in 82, comes simply, with better metre.