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When she came to the King’s court,
she knocked at the pin,
There was none so ready as the King,
to let this maiden in. And &c.
O what’s your will with me Madam?
O what's your will with me?
Sir, there’s a man into your court,
this day has robbed me. And &c.
O has he robb’d you of your gold,
or yet your penny fee.
Or has he robb’d thee of thy maidenhead,
the flower of thy body. And &c.
He has not robb’d me of my gold,
nor yet of my penny fee,
But he’s robb'd me of my maidenhead,
the flower of my body. And &c.
O its if he be a married man,
its hanged he must be,
But if he be a batchelor,
thy husband he shall be. And &c.
O the King has call’d out his merry men all,
by thirty and by three.
Sweet William he should be a foremost man,
the last man he but three. And &c.
Then he’s ta’en out a purse of gold,
and told it on a stone,
Saying, Take up that my dearest dear,
and go thou thy ways home. And &c.
