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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=346109" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Knight and Shepherd's Daughter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a shepherds daughter<br>Came tripping on the waye,<br>And there by chance a knighte shee mett,<br>Which caused her to staye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Good morrowe to you, beauteous maide,'<br>These words pronounced hee;<br>'O I shall dye this daye,' he sayd,<br>'If Ive not my wille of thee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Lord forbid,' the maide replyde,<br>'That you shold waxe so wode!'<br>But for all that shee could do or saye,<br>'He wold not be withstood.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sith you have had your wille of mee,<br>And put me to open shame,<br>Now, if you are a courteous knighte,<br>Tell me what is your name?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Some do call mee Jacke, sweet heart,<br>And some do call me Jille;<br>But when I come to the kings fair courte,<br>They calle me Wilfulle Wille.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sett his foot into the stirrup, <br>And awaye then he did ride;<br>She tuckt her girdle about her middle,<br>And ranne close by his side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when she came to the brode water,<br>She sett her brest and swamme;<br>And when she was got out againe,<br>She tooke to her heels and ranne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He never was the courteous knighte,<br>To saye, 'Faire maide, will ye ride?'<br>'And she was ever too loving a maide<br>To saye, 'Sir Knighte, abide.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When she came to the kings faire courte,<br>She knocked at the ring:<br>So readye was the king himself <br>To let this faire maid in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now Christ you save, my gracious liege,<br>Now Christ you save and see;<br>You have a knighte within your courte<br>This daye hath robbed mee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What hath he robbed thee of, sweet heart?<br>Of purple or of pall?<br>Or hath he took thy gaye gold ring<br>From off thy finger small?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He hath not robbed mee, my liege,<br>Of purple nor of pall;<br>But he hath gotten my maiden-head,<br>Which grieves mee worst of all.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now if he be a batchelor,<br>His bodye Ile give to thee;<br>But if he be a married man,<br>High hanged he shall bee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He called downe his merrye men all,<br>By one, by two, by three;<br>Sir William used to bee the first,<br>But nowe the last came hee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He brought her downe fulle fortye pounde,<br>Tyed up withinne a glove:<br>'Faire maid, Ile give the same to thee;<br>Go seeke thee another love.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O Ile have none of your gold,' she sayde,<br>'Nor Ile have none of your fee;<br>But your faire bodye I must have,<br>The king hath granted mee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sir William ranne and fetchd her then<br>Five hundred pound in golde,<br>Saying, 'Faire maide, take this to thee, <br>Thy fault will never be tolde.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis not the gold that shall mee tempt,'<br>These words then answered shee,<br>'But your own bodye I must have,<br>The king hath granted mee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Would I had dranke the water cleare,<br>When I did drink the wine,<br>Rather than any shepherds brat<br>Shold bee a ladye of mine!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Would I had drank the puddle foule,<br>When I did drink the ale,<br>Rather that ever a shepherds brat<br>Shold tell me such a tale!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A shepherds brat even as I was,<br>You mote have let mee bee;<br>I never had come to the kings faire courte,<br>To crave any love of thee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sett her on a milk-white steede,<br>And himself upon a graye;<br>He hung a bugle about his necke,<br>And soe they rode awaye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when they came unto the place,<br>Where marriage-rites were done,<br>She proved herself a dukes daughter,<br>And he but a squires sonne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now marrye me, or not, Sir Knight,<br>Your pleasure shall be free:<br>If you make me ladye of one good towne,<br>Ile make you lord of three.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ah! cursed bee the gold;' he sayd,<br>'If thou hadst not been trewe,<br>I shold have forsaken my sweet love,<br>And have changed her for a newe.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now their hearts being linked fast,<br>They joyned hand in hande:<br>Thus he had both purse, and person too,<br>And all at his commande.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Olde+English">Anonymous Olde English</a><div class=q>
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Came tripping on the waye,
And there by chance a knighte shee mett,
Which caused her to staye.

'Good morrowe to you, beauteous maide,'
These words pronounced hee;
'O I shall dye this daye,' he sayd,
'If Ive not my w..."></div>
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