Old Ballads Historical And Narrative With Some of Modern Date volume 2
Old Ballads Historical And Narrative With Some of Modern Date volume 2
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868
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II. T af4 OLD BALLADS. But coming then to London back, Within her coach of gold, A tempest strange within the skies Tliis queen did there behold : Out of which storm she could not go, But there remain'd a spjice ; Four horses could not stir the coach A foot out of the place. A judgment lately sent from heav'n, For shedding guiltless blood, Upon this sinful queen, that slew The London lady good ! King Edward then, as wisdom will'd, Accus'd her of that deed ; But she denied, and wish'd that God W...ould send his wrath with sj>eed : If that upon so vile a thing Her heart did ever think, She wish'd the ground might open wide, And therein she might sink ! Witli that at Charing- cross she sunk Into the ground alive ; And after rose with life again. In London, at Queenhithe. OLD BALLADS. 276 When, after that, she languish'd sore Full twenty days in pain, At last confess'd the lady's blood Her guilty hand had slain : And likewise, how that by a friar She had a base-born child ; Whose sinful lusts, and wickedness, Her marriage bed defil'd.
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