have but one.

19.
'Your daughter gives commands,
As you sit in a chair of oak,
And bids you come to her sickening,
Or her merry lake-wake.

20.
'She gives command to her brother
William, Ralph, and John,
[And] to her sister Betty fair,
And to her white as bone.

21.
'She bids her keep her maidenhead,
Be sure make much on 't,
For if e'er she came in man's bed,
The same gate woud she gang.'

22.
She kickt the table with her foot,
She kickt it with her knee,
The silver plate into the fire,
So far she made it flee.

23.
Then she call'd her waiting-maid
To bring her riding-hood,
So did she on her stable-groom
To bring her riding-steed.

24.
'Go saddle to me the black, [the black,]
Go saddle to me the brown,
Go saddle to me the swiftest steed
That e'er rid [to] Wallington.'

25.
When they came to Wallington,
And into Wallington hall,
There she spy'd her son Fenwick,
Walking about the wall.

26.
'God save you, dear son,
Lord may your keeper be!
Where is my daughter fair,
That used to walk with thee?'

27.
He turn'd his head round about,
The tears did fill his e'e:
''Tis a month' he said, 'since she
Took her chambers from me.'

28.
She went on . . .
And there were in the hall
Four and twenty ladies,
Letting the tears down fall.

29.
Her daughter had a scope
Into her cheek and into her chin,
All to keep her life
Till her dear mother came.

30.
'Come take the rings off my fingers,
The skin it is so white,
And give them to my mother dear,
For she was all the wite.

31.
'Come take the rings off my fingers,
The veins they are so red,
Give them to Sir William Fenwick,
I'm sure his heart will bleed.'

32.
She took out a razor
That was both sharp and fine,
And out of her left side has taken
The heir of Wallington.

33.
There is a race in Wallington,
And that I rue full sare;
Tho' the cradle it be full spread up
The bride-bed is left bare.

[Annotations:
1.1: 'silly,' simple.
1.4: 'lair,' lying-in.
2.4: 'gate,' way.
5.3: 'her mother' is, of course, her mother-in-law.
9.2: 'shun' = shoon, shoes.
13: This stanza is not in the original, but is supplied from the boy's
repetition, st. 19.
13.4: 'lake-wake' = lyke-wake: watching by a corpse.
22: Th