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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,
