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 He was forc’d to make that promise only,

In the desart I with hunger should die,

With the  did appear,

Which made the fill'd them with fear

Crying, what sure he is not a man,

He will have our darling do all that we can.

He said, It was promis’d and I’d have my due,

There’s one babe for me and another for you,

I will save your first born, come give him to me,

At which all the family wept bitterly.

The babe’s mother cried I’m griev’d to the

To think that I such a dear infant must part,

To one that should carry him, Lord knows where,

And perhaps in pieces my darling will tear

With that she and down the tears fell

And then having kissed him, she bade him

Saying, It is for the sake of my husband that I

Do part with my first tho’ for him I die.

So then this grim her husband did say

Sir, do you remember in Turkey one day.

You saw a dead man’s corpse lying on the ground

And to have it buried, you gave fifty pound:

Sir, I am the spirit that dead ,

I saved your life for that great love to me;

You may keep your babe, so God bless you all,

Then away it vanished out of the hall!

Being gone, the old Prince & his Princess like

The babe’s tender parents with tears in their eyes

With joy they embrac’d their darling their Son,

Saying, Child, had’st thou we had been

Now I’ll leave the court joy and mirth,

To love one another them

And now by this F may indeed,

No mortal can prevent what Fate has decreed.