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<HEAD>A Plea&s;ant BALLAD &s;hewing how two Valliant KNIGHTS, Sir <HI>John Arm&s;trong</HI> and Sir <HI>Michael Mu&s;grave,</HI> fell in Love with the Beautiful Daughter of the Lady <HI>Dacres,</HI> in the <HI>North;</HI> and of the great Strife that happen'd between them for Her, and how they wrought the Death of one hundred Men.</HEAD>
<OPENER><HI>To an excellent new Northern Tune,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>AS it fell out one <HI>Whit&s;unday,</HI></L>
<L>the blith time of the Year,</L>
<L>When every tree was clad with green,</L>
<L>and pretty birds &s;ing clear;</L>
<L>The Lady <HI>Dacres</HI> took her way</L>
<L>Vnto the Church that plea&s;ant day,</L>
<L>With her fair Daughter fre&s;h and gay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>a bright and bonny La&s;s,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fa la tre dang de do;</HI></L>
<L><HI>trang trole lo trang de do;</HI></L>
<L><HI>With hey trang trole lo lye,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;he was a bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>Sir <HI>Michael Mu&s;grave</HI> in like &s;ort,</L>
<L>to Church repaired then,</L>
<L>And &s;o did Sir <HI>John Arm&s;trong</HI> too,</L>
<L>with all his merry Men,</L>
<L>Two greater Friends there could not be,</L>
<L>Nor braver Knights for Chivalry,</L>
<L>Both Batchelors of high degree,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>fit for a bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>They &s;at them down upon one &s;eat,</L>
<L>like loving Brethren dear,</L>
<L>With hearts and minds devoutly bent</L>
<L>God's &s;ervice for to hear;</L>
<L>But ri&s;ing from their prayers tho,</L>
<L>Their eyes a ranging &s;traight did go,</L>
<L>Which wrought their utter overthrow,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>all for one bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Qd. Mu&s;grave unto Arm&s;trong then,</L>
<L>You &s;its the &s;weete&s;t Dame,</L>
<L>That ever for her fair beauty,</L>
<L>within this Country came.</L>
<L>In&s;ooth, quoth <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> pre&s;entily,</L>
<L>Your judgment I mu&s;t verifie,</L>
<L>There never came unto my eye,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>a braver bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>I &s;wear, &s;aid <HI>Mu&s;grave,</HI> by this &s;word,</L>
<L>which did my Knight-hood win,</L>
<L>To &s;teal away &s;o &s;weet a Dame,</L>
<L>could be no gho&s;tly &s;in.</L>
<L>That deed, qd. <HI>Arm&s;trong,</HI> would be ill,</L>
<L>Except he had her right good will,</L>
<L>That your de&s;ire &s;he would fulfil,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and be thy bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>By this the &s;ervice quire was done,</L>
<L>and home the People pa&s;t:</L>
<L>They wi&s;ht a bli&s;ter on his tongue,</L>
<L>that made thereof &s;uch ha&s;t.</L>
<L>At the Church-door the Knights did meet,</L>
<L>The Lady <HI>Dacres</HI> for to greet,</L>
<L>But mo&s;t of all her Daughter &s;weet,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>that beautious bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>Said <HI>Arm&s;trong;</HI> to the Lady fair,</L>
<L>we both have made a vow,</L>
<L>At dinner for to be your Gue&s;ts,</L>
<L>if you will it allow.</L>
<L>With that be&s;poke the Lady free,</L>
<L>Sir Knights, right welcome &s;hall you be.</L>
<L>The happier Men therefore are we,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for love of this bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>Thus was the Knights both prickt in love,</L>
<L>both in one moment thrall'd,</L>
<L>And both with one fair Lady gay,</L>
<L>thus blind in <HI>Cupid</HI> <UNCLEAR>call'd</UNCLEAR>.</L>
<L>With humble thanks they went away,</L>
<L>Like wounded harts cha&s;t all the day.</L>
<L>One would not to the other &s;ay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>they lov'd this bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>Fair <HI>I&s;abel</HI> on the other &s;ide,</L>
<L>as far in love was found,</L>
<L>So long brave <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> &s;he had ey'd,</L>
<L>till love her heart did wound:</L>
<L>Brave <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> is my Ioy, quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>Would Chri&s;t he were alone with me.</L>
<L>To talk an hour two or three;</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>with his fair bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
</LG>
</LG>
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<L>But as the&s;e Knights together rode,</L>
<L>and homeward did repair,</L>
<L>Their talk &amp; eke their countenance &s;hew'd,</L>
<L>their hearts were clog'd with care;</L>
<L>Fair <HI>I&s;abel,</HI> the one did &s;ay,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t &s;ubdu'd, my heart this day.</L>
<L>But &s;he's my Ioy, did <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> &s;ay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>my bright and bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>With that the&s;e Friends incontinent,</L>
<L>became mo&s;t deadly Foes,</L>
<L>For love of beautious <HI>I&s;abel,</HI></L>
<L>great &s;trife betwixt them ro&s;e:</L>
<L>Quoth <HI>Arm&s;trong,</HI> She &s;hall be my Wife,</L>
<L>Although for her I lo&s;e my life;</L>
<L>And thus began a deadly &s;trife,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and for one bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>Thus two years long this grudge did grow,</L>
<L>the&s;e gallant Knights between,</L>
<L>While they a wooing both did go;</L>
<L>unto this beautious Queen;</L>
<L>And &s;he who did their furies prove,</L>
<L>To neither would bewray her love,</L>
<L>The deadly quarrel to remove,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>about this bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<L>But neither of her fair intreats,</L>
<L>nor yet her &s;harp di&s;pute,</L>
<L>Would they appea&s;e their raging ire,</L>
<L>nor yet give o're their &s;uit.</L>
<L>The Gentlemen of the <HI>North</HI> Country,</L>
<L>At la&s;t did make this good decree,</L>
<L>All for a perfect unity,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>about this bonny La&s;s;</HI></L>
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<L>The Love-&s;ick Knights &s;hould both be &s;et</L>
<L>within one hall &s;o wide,</L>
<L>Each of them in a gallant &s;ort,</L>
<L>then at a &s;everal tide;</L>
<L>And 'twixt them both for certainty,</L>
<L>Fair <HI>I&s;abel</HI> &s;hould placed be</L>
<L>Of them to take her choice full free</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>mo&s;t like a bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>And as &s;he like an Angel bright,</L>
<L>betwixt them mildly &s;tood,</L>
<L>She turned unto each &s;everal Knight,</L>
<L>with pale and changed blood:</L>
<L>Now am I at liberty,</L>
<L>To make and take my choice quoth &s;he,</L>
<L>Yea, quoth the Knights, we do agree,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>then chu&s;e thou bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>O Mu&s;grave, thou art all too hot,</L>
<L>to be a Lady's Love.</L>
<L>Quoth &s;he, And <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> &s;eems a Sot,</L>
<L>where love binds him to prove;</L>
<L>Of courage great is <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> &s;till;</L>
<L>And &s;ith to chu&s;e I have my will,</L>
<L>Sweet <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> &s;hall my joys fulfil,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>and I his bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>The Nobles and the Gentiles boths</L>
<L>that were in pre&s;ent place,</L>
<L>Rejoyced at this &s;weet record</L>
<L>but <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> in di&s;grace,</L>
<L>Out of the hall did take his way,</L>
<L>And <HI>Arm&s;trong</HI> married was next day</L>
<L>With <HI>I&s;abel</HI> his Lady gay,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>a bright and bonny</HI> La&s;s.</L>
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<L>But <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> on the wedding-day;</L>
<L>like to a <HI>Scotch</HI>-man dight,</L>
<L>In &s;ecret &s;ort allured out</L>
<L>the Bridegroom for to fight;</L>
<L>And he that will not out-brav'd be,</L>
<L>Vnto his challenge did agree,</L>
<L>Where he was &s;lain mo&s;t &s;uddenly,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>for his fair bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<L>The news hereof was quickly brought</L>
<L>unto the lovely Bride:</L>
<L>And many of young <HI>Arm&s;trong's</HI> Kin,</L>
<L>did after <HI>Mu&s;grave</HI> ride;</L>
<L>They hew'd him when they had him got,</L>
<L>As &s;mall as fle&s;h into the pot;</L>
<L>Lo thus befel a heavy lot,</L>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L><HI>about this bonny La&s;s.</HI></L>
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<L>The Lady young which did lament</L>
<L>this cruel cur&s;ed &s;trife,</L>
<L>For very grief died that day,</L>
<L>a Maiden and a Wife:</L>
<L>An hundred Men that haple&s;s day,</L>
<L>Did loo&s;e their lives in that &s;ame fray;</L>
<L>And 'twixt tho&s;e Names as many &s;ay,</L>
<L>is deadly Hate &s;till 'biding.</L>
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<P><HI>Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by and for <HI>W. O.</HI> and are to be &s;old by <HI>J. Blare,</HI> on <HI>London-bridge.</HI></P>
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