',
An' come ye in among wis a'.'

10.
Now he's gaen in inta der ha',
An' he's gaen in among dem a'.

11.
Dan he took out his pipes to play,
Bit sair his hert wi' doel an' wae.

12.
An' first he played da notes o' noy,
An' dan he played da notes o' joy.

13.
An' dan he played da goed gabber reel,
Dat meicht ha' made a sick hert hale.

14.
'Noo tell to us what ye will hae:
What sall we gie you for your play?'

15.
'What I will hae I will you tell,
And dat's me Lady Isabel.'

16.
'Yees tak your lady, an' yees gaeng hame,
An' yees be king ower a' your ain.'

17.
He's taen his lady, an' he's gaen hame,
An' noo he's king ower a' his ain.

[Annotations:
7.1: 'noy,' grief.
8.1: 'The good gabber reel' is a sprightly dance-tune.
9.1,2: 'wir,' 'wis,' our, us.]

THE BAFFLED KNIGHT

+The Text+ is from Ravenscroft's _Deuteromelia_ (1609), reprinted almost
_verbatim_ in Tom Durfey's _Pills to Purge Melancholy_.

+The Story+ was sufficiently popular not only to have been revived, at
the end of the seventeenth century, but to have had three other 'Parts'
added to it, the whole four afterwards being combined into one
broadside.

In similar Spanish, Portuguese, and French ballads, the damsel escapes
by saying she is a leper, or the daughter of a leper, or otherwise
diseased. Much the same story is told in Danish and German ballads.

THE BAFFLED KNIGHT

1.
Yonder comes a courteous knight,
Lustely raking over the lay;
He was well ware of a bonny lasse,
As she came wand'ring over the way.
_Then she sang downe a downe, hey downe derry_ (_bis_)

2.
'Jove you speed, fayre ladye,' he said,
'Among the leaves that be so greene;
If I were a king, and wore a crowne,
Full soone, fair lady, shouldst thou be a queen.

3.
'Also Jove save you, faire lady,
Among the roses that be so red;
If I have not my will of you,
Full soone, faire lady, shall I be dead.'

4.
Then he lookt east, then hee lookt west,
Hee lookt north, so did he south;
He could not finde a privy place,
For all lay in the divel's mouth.

5.
'If you will carry me, gentle sir,
A mayde unto my father's hall,
Then you shall have your will of me,
Under purple and under paule.'

6.
He set her up upon a steed,
And him selfe upon another,
And all the day he rode her by,
As though