I’le make thee heire [of] after mee.’
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And then bespake the shepard’s wife,
To the Lord of Learne thus did she say;
‘Goe thy way to our sheepe,’ she said,
‘And tend them well both night and day.’
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It was a sore office, O Lord, for him
That was a lord borne of a great degree!
As he was tending his sheepe alone,