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Giles Collins and Proud Lady Anna
LADY ALICE—B
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Giles Collins he said to his old mother,Mother, come bind up my head,
And send to the parson of our parish,
For tomorrow I shall be dead. dead,
For tomorrow I shall be dead.
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His mother she made him some water-gruel,And stirrd it round with a spoon;
Giles Collins he ate up his water-gruel,
And died before 'twas noon.
3
Lady Anna was sitting at her window,Mending her night-robe and coif;
She saw the very prettiest corpse
She'd seen in all her life.
4
‘What bear ye there, ye six strong men,Upon your shoulders so high?’
‘We bear the body of Giles Collins,
Who for love of you did die.’
5
‘Set him down, set him down,’ Lady Anna she cry'd,‘On the grass that grows so green;
Tomorrow, before the clock strikes ten,
My body shall lye by hisn.’
6
Lady Anna was buried in the east,Giles Collins was buried in the west;
There grew a lilly from Giles Collins
That touchd Lady Anna's breast.
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There blew a cold north-easterly wind,And cut this lilly in twain,
Which never there was seen before,
And it never will again.
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