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 2 THE LOWLANDS OF HOLLAND

The love that I have chosen, I'll there with be content, The salt sea shall be frozen, Before that I repent: Repent it I shall never, until the day I die, But the Lowlands of Holland, hath twin’d my love and me.

My lore is on the salt sea, and I am on the side, Enough to break a young thing’s heart who lately was a bride, Who lately was a bonny bride, most pleasant for to see, But the Lowlands of Holland, hath twin’d my love and me.

There shall no shirt go on my back, comb go in my hair, shall coal nor candle light my bower mair. chuse another love,