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And if you have got them,
pray send them unto me,
I will my loving lady
with thanks given unto thee.
There is one ring amongst them all,
I allow yourself to wear.
With thirty shining diamonds,
set in with silver clear;
As a true lover’s token
to wear on your right hand,
That you may think on broken hearts,
when you are in a foreign land.
Up spoke the noble judge, saying,
you may let the pris’ner go.
The lady she has cleared him,
the jury well may know
She has released her own true love,
and has renewed her name.
That her honour great may gain estate,
And always rise in fame.
THE HURL BARROW,
When I was a wee thing,
and just like an elf
All the meat that e’er I gat,
I laid upon a shelf.
The rottens and the nice
they fell into a strife,
