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( 3 ) At laſt a proper handſome youth, Young Bateman called by name, In hopes ſhe would become his wife, unto this maiden came.

Such love and liking there was found, that he from all the reſt Had ſtolen away the maiden's heart, and ſhe did love him beſt: "Then plighted promiſe ſecretly did paſs between them two, "That nothing could but death itſelf, this true-love knot undo.

He brake a piece of geld in twain, one half to her he gave, The other as a pledge, quoth he, dear love, myſelf will have: If I do break my vow, quoth the, while I remain alive, May ne'er a thing I take in hand, be ſeen at all to thrive.

This palled on for two months ſpace, and then the maid began. To ſettle love and liking too, upon another man: