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 'The female sex I did beguile.

At length two were by me with child.

I promis'd to be true to both,

And bound myself under an oath,

To marry then if I had life,

And one of them I made my wife.

The other being left alone,

Crying, Ye've done a wicked thing,

By me you've done a wicked thing,

Which public shame will on me bring.

Then to a silent shade she went,

Her present shame for to prevent,

And soon she finish'd up the strife,

And cut her tender thread of life.

She hung herself upon a tree,

Two men a hunting did her see;

Her flesh by beasts was basely tore,

Which made the young men weep full sore.

Straight they went and cut her down,

And in her breast a note was found;

This not, as written out at large,

Bury me not I do you charge;

But on the ground her let me ly,

For ev'ry one that passes by,

That they by me a warning take,

And see what follow e'er too late,