Six Love Songs (1830-1840)/The fair young Knight
The fair young Knight.
At the Baron of Mowbray’s gate was seen
A page with a courser black;
There came out a knight of noble mein,
And he leapt on the eourses back.
His arms were bright, his heart was light,
And he sung this merry lay,
“How jollily lives this fair young knight,
He loves and he rides away.”
A lady look’d over the castle wall,
And she heard the knight thus sing:
The lady’s tears began to fall,
And her hands she began to wring.
“And didst thou then my true love plight,
And was it but to betray?
Ah! tarry a while, my own dear knight,
In pity don’t ride away.”
The knight of her tears he took no heed,
While scornful laugh’d his eye;
He gave the spur to his prancing steed,———
“ Good b’ye, sweetheart, good b’ye.”
And soon he vanish’d from her sight,
While she was heard te say,
“Ah! ladies beware of a fair young knight
He’ll love and he’ll ride away.”