"As I did plainly see."

He hasten'd to the queen's chamber,

So costly and so fine,

Untill he came to the queen's own bed,

Where the leper-man was lain.

He looked on the leper-man,

Who lay on his queen's bed;

He lifted up the snaw-white sheets,

And thus he to him said:

"Plooky, plooky,[[A]] are your cheeks,