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And is it thou, good Blas, who sing'st so well? I heard thee as I cross'd the gallery, And was led hither by the well-known tune That, when a boy, I have so often heard. But cease not; sing the rest of that old story.

In sooth, my Lord, I have forgot the rhimes.

But canst thou not, without the rhimes, remember The third escape which for her lawless lover The wily dame devised?

Yes, in a groom's attire she sent him forth To hold her husband's stirrup at the gate, As he alighted from his warlike barb.