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Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

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ANCIENT SONGS<br />

When I kill Craddockes mouth<br />

Before he marryed mee.<br />

When fhee had her fhreeven,<br />

And her finnes fhee had t<strong>old</strong>e ;<br />

The mantle ftoode about her 125<br />

Right as fhee w<strong>old</strong> :<br />

Seemelye <strong>of</strong> coulour<br />

Glittering like g<strong>old</strong> :<br />

Then every knight in Arthurs court<br />

Did her beh<strong>old</strong>. 1 30<br />

Then fpake dame Guenever<br />

To Arthur our king<br />

She hath tane yonder mantle<br />

Not with right, but with wronge.<br />

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See you not yonder woman, 135<br />

That maketh her felf * cleane' ?<br />

I have feene tane out <strong>of</strong> her bedd<br />

Of men five teene ;<br />

Priefts, clarkes, and wedded men<br />

From her bedeene : 140<br />

Yett fhee taketh the mantle,<br />

And maketh her felf cleane.<br />

Ver. 136, cleare, MS. Ver. 139. by deene. MS.<br />

Then

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