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 When she came to the King’s court,

she knocked at the pin,

There was none so ready as the King,

to let this maiden in. And &c.

O what’s your will with me Madam?

O what's your will with me?

Sir, there’s a man into your court,

this day has robbed me. And &c.

O has he robb’d you of your gold,

or yet your penny fee.

Or has he robb’d thee of thy maidenhead,

the flower of thy body. And &c.

He has not robb’d me of my gold,

nor yet of my penny fee,

But he’s robb'd me of my maidenhead,

the flower of my body. And &c.

O its if he be a married man,

its hanged he must be,

But if he be a batchelor,

thy husband he shall be. And &c.

O the King has call’d out his merry men all,

by thirty and by three.

Sweet William he should be a foremost man,

the last man he but three. And &c.

Then he’s ta’en out a purse of gold,

and told it on a stone,

Saying, Take up that my dearest dear,

and go thou thy ways home. And &c.