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Rh "Play me no tricks," said Lord Ronald,

"For I am yours in word and in deed.

Play me no tricks," said Lord Ronald,

"Your riddle is hard to read."

O and proudly stood she up!

Her heart within her did not fail:

She look'd into Lord Ronald's eyes,

And told him all her nurse's tale.

He laugh'd a laugh of merry scorn:

He turn'd and kiss'd her where she stood:

"If you are not the heiress born,

And I," said he, "the next in blood—

"If you are not the heiress born,

And I," said he, "the lawful heir,

We two will wed to-morrow morn,

And you shall still be Lady Clare."

.

The Lord of Burleigh.

her ear he whispers gaily,

"If my heart by signs can tell,

Maiden, I have watched thee daily,

And I think thou lov'st me well."

She replies, in accents fainter,

"There is none I love like thee."

He is but a landscape-painter,

And a village maiden she.