ho, &c.

3.
"'It's down in yonder grass-grown field,
Heigho!
It's down in yonder grass-grown field,
There lies a dead knight just new killed.'
Heigho, &c.

4.
"There came a lady full of woe,
Heigho!
There came a lady full of woe,
And her hands she wrung, and her tears did flow.
Heigho, &c.

5.
"She saw the red blood from his side,
Heigho!
She saw the red blood from his side,--
'And it was for me my true love died!'
Heigho, &c.

6.
"'Oh, cruel was my brother's sword,
Heigho!
Oh, cruel, cruel, was his sword,
But sharper the edge of one scornful word.'
Heigho, &c.

7.
She laid her on his bosom cold,
Heigho!
She laid her on his bosom cold,
While adown his cheek her tears they rolled.
Heigho, &c.

8.
"No word she spake, but one sob gave she,
Heigho!
No word she spake, but one sob gave she:
Said the ravens, 'Another feast have we,
And long shall thy rest and thy slumbers be.'
Heigho, the derry, derry, down, heigho!"

At the concluding stanza in walked Oliver Tempest, who, as if to avoid
notice, sat down, without uttering a word, in a dark corner at the
opposite side of the hall. He looked moody, and wishful to be alone.
Joan, for a while, forbore to interrupt his reverie, and the females
finished their evening repast in silence.

"Is Sir Thomas Talbot yet returned from the Harringtons?" inquired the
dame soon after, with an air of assumed carelessness.

"He returned an hour only ere I departed."

Another pause ensued.

"And his son Thomas, comes he back from the Pudsays of Bolton? Does the
gentle Florence[59] look on him kindly, or is the wedding yet delayed?"

"I know not," was the brief reply. After a short pause he
continued--"The wanderer has left Bolton, I learn, and, 'tis said, he
bides at Whalley."

Here he cast a furtive look at the domestics, and then at his wife, as
though wishful to ascertain if others had understood this intimation.

"Nay, some do boldly affirm that he has been seen i' these very woods,"
continued he, lowering his voice to a whisper.

"Which Heaven forefend!" said the wary dame. "I would not that he should
draw us down with him to the same gulf wherein his fortune is
o'erwhelmed. No luck that woman ever brought him from o'er sea, and now
she's gone"--

"They say that she hath es