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Lord Thomas and fair Annet.

ORD Thomas and fair Annet,

sat a day on a hill,

When night was come and sun was set

they had not talk’d their fill,

Lord Thomas spoke a word in jest,

fair Annet took it ill,

I will never wed a wife,

against my ain friends will.

If ye will never wed a wife,

a wife will ne’er wed ye,

So he is hame to tell his mother,

and kneel’d upon his knee.

Advice, me mother he says,

a good advice give me,

O shall I take the nut-brown maid,

and let fair Annet be.

The nut-brown bride has goud and gear

fair Annet she has nane,

And the little beauty fair Annet has,

O it will soon be gane,

And he has till his brother gane,

brother, advise ye me,

Shall I marry the nut-brown bride,

and let fair Annet be?