And the Maid a share from the spice-loaf shaved;

And the crumbs within her hollow hand

She held where the creeping doves did stand.

But Goldilocks, he looked and longed,

And saw how the carle the queen-bird wronged.

For when she came to the hand to eat

The hungry queen-bird thence he beat.

Then Goldilocks the Swain spake low:

"Foul fall thee, bird, thou doest now

As I to Goldilocks, my sweet,