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With temper mild as new-born child, to every fault is simple; Her lovely hair in ringlets twine, her sweet features how they bind tne, I never more then until death will leave my girl behind me.

Her voice no woodlark can exceed, no goldfinch nor yet linnet. So met odious found her tuneful note, as she plays on her spinnet; The little lambkins round her play, in the sweet shady valley, With her sweet charms in wars alarms. I’ll live and die with Sally.

In sweet content to church they went, join’d hands and hearts together, As the turtle dove in mutual love, to be true to each other ; Long life and health attend the pair, may their love never faulter. Then blessed will the hour be that he sail’d from Gibraltar.

PRINCESS ELIZABETH;S Lamentation, while

a Prisoner at Woodstock, 1554

WILL you hear how once repining,

Great ELIZA captive lay,

Each ambitious thought resigning, foe to riches, pomp, and sway,