I’ll twine the ringlets,
The raving dark hair, the rose
is so red and the lily so fair.
And the myrtle, so green mids
the Emeral hugh. This pale fairen
maiden with eyes of light blue.
2
I’ll laugh and I’ll sing and
my songs shall be gay; I’ll
quit this wild weeping, drive
sorrow away, thought my heart
is now breaking he never
shall know, that his name
makes me tremble, my pale
cheeks to glow.
3
He promised to love me he
called me his flower, that
bloomed for to cheer him
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