.   .   .   .   .   .   .   .

He was not to learn his courtesie:

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‘Where was thou born, thou bonny child?

For whose sake makst thou all this mone?’

‘My dearest friend, lady,’ he said,

‘Is dead many years agon.’

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‘Tell thou to me, thou bonny child,

Tell me the truth and do not lye,