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45 XI.

I'll give you the best help I can:

Before you up the mountain go,

Up to the dreary mountain-top,

I'll tell you all I know.

'Tis now some two and twenty years,

Since she (her name is Martha Ray)

Gave with a maiden's true good will

Her company to Stephen Hill;

And she was blithe and gay,

And she was happy, happy still

Whene'er she thought of Stephen Hill.

XII.

And they had fix'd the wedding-day,

The morning that must wed them both;

But Stephen to another maid

Had sworn another oath;

And with this other maid to church