| C. |
The verses are given incidentally in a preface
to another ballad. Between 1 and 2: The
kind fair one puts his horse into the stable
and takes himself to her bower, where she
gives him 'the good white bread and bloodred wine,'
and a part of her bed. In the
morning, when he proposes to depart, she
naturally enough asks [as in st. 2]. |
