‘Oh stay, O stay, thou goodly youth!
She’s alive, she is not dead;
Here she standeth by thy side,
And is ready to be thy bride.’—
XIII
‘O farewell grief, and welcome joy,
Ten thousand times and o’er!
For now I have seen my own true-love,
That I thought I should have seen no more.’
FOOTNOTES:
[1300] puggish = tramp’s.
[163. The Blind Beggar’s Daughter of Bednall-Green]
I
It was a blind beggar, had long lost his sight,
He had a fair daughter of beauty most bright;
And many a gallant brave suitor had she,
For none was so comely as pretty Bessee.