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 ( 15 ) O fate, help me, faid Adam Bell, And Clim of the Clough fo free. Would we were in merry Carlifle, Before that fair menzie. Then they fat down and made good cheer And eat and drank full well: Here’s a fit of thefe bold yeomen. Another I will you tell. As they in the Englifh wood, Under the trufty tree, (ing, They thought they heard a woman weep- But her they could not fee. Sore then fighed the fair Alice, That e’er I faw this day; For now is my dear hufband flain, Alas! and well-a-day. Might I have fpoke with his brethren, Or either of the twain. To let them know what him befel. My heart were out of pain. Cloudeflie walk’d a little afide, Look’d under the green wood linn. He faw his wife and children three. Full woe in heart and mind. Welcome, my dear wife faid William, Under this trufty tree, I too thought yefterday, by St John, I hou fhoud’ft: me never fee; . I’m well, fhe lays that you be here, My heart is out of woe ;