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hall write	A
A doleful story you shall hear	B
In time brought forth to light	A
A gentleman of good account	C
In Norfolk dwelt of late	D
Who did in honour far surmount	C
Most men of his estate	D
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II	-
Sore sick he was and like to die	E
No help his life could save	F
His wife by him as sick did lie	E
And both possest one grave	F
No love between these two was lost	G
Each was to other kind	H
In love they lived in love they died	I
And left two babes behind	H
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III	-
The one a fine and pretty boy	J
Not passing three years old	K
The other a girl more young than he	L
And framed in beauty's mould	K
The father left his little son	M
As plainly did appear	N
When he to perfect age should come	O
Three hundred pounds a year	N
	-
IV	F
And to his little daughter Jane	P
Five hundred pounds in gold	K
To be paid down on marriage day	Q
Which might not be controll'd	K
But if the children chanced to die	E
Ere they to age should come	O
Their uncle should possess their wealth	R
For so the will did run	M
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V	F
Now brother ' said the dying man	S
Look to my children dear	N
Be good unto my boy and girl	T
No friends else have they here	B
To God and you I recommend	U
My children dear this day	Q
But little while be sure we have	F
Within this world to stay	Q
	-
VI	E
You must be father and mother both	V
And uncle all in one	M
God knows what will become of them	W
When I am dead and gone '	-
With that bespake their mother dear	N
O brother kind ' quoth she	F
You are the man must bring our babes	X
To wealth or misery	F
	-
VII	E
And if you keep them carefully	F
Then God will you reward	Y
But if you otherwise should deal	Z
God will your deeds regard '	-
With lips as cold as any stone	A2
They kiss'd their children small	B2
God bless you both my children dear '	-
With that the tears did fall	B2
	-
VIII	E
These speeches then their brother spake	C2
To this sick couple there	D2
The keeping of your little ones	E2
Sweet sister do not fear	N
God never prosper me nor mine	F2
Nor aught else that I have	E
If I do wrong your children dear	N
When you are laid in grave '	-
	-
IX	E2
The parents being dead and gone	G2
The children home he takes	E2
And brings them straight unto his house	E2
Where much of them he makes	E2
He had not kept these pretty babes	E2
A twelvemonth and a day	Q
But for their wealth he did devise	E2
To make them both away	Q
	-
X	E2
He bargain'd with two ruffians strong	H2
Which were of furious mood	I2
That they should take these children young	J2
And slay them in a wood	K2
He told his wife an artful tale	L2
He would the children send	U
To be brought up in London town	M2
With one that was his friend	U
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XI	E2
Away then went those pretty babes	E2
Rejoicing at that tide	I
Rejoicing with a merry mind	H
They should on cock horse ride	I
They prate and prattle pleasantly	E2
As they ride on the way	Q
To those that should their butchers be	E2
And work their lives' decay	Q
	-
XII	E2
So that the pretty speech they had	N2
Made Murder's heart relent	O2
And they that undertook the deed	P2
Full sore did now repent	O2
Yet one of them more hard of heart	Q2
Did vow to do his charge	R2
Because the wretch that hir d him	S2
Had paid him very large	R2
	-
XIII	E2
The other won't agree thereto	Q2
So here they fall to strife	E
With one another they did fight	Q2
About the children's life	E
And he that was of mildest mood	Q2
Did slay the other there	D2
Within an unfrequented wood	Q2
The babes did quake for fear	N
	-
XIV	E
He took the children by the hand	Q2
Tears standing in their eye	E
And bade them straightway follow him	S2
And look they did not cry	E
And two long miles he led them on	T2
While they for food complain	P
Stay here ' quoth he I'll bring you bread	Q2
When I come back again '	-
	-
XV	E
These pretty babes with hand in hand	Q2
Went wandering up and down	M2
But never more could see the man	S
Approaching from the town	M2
Their pretty lips with blackberries	E2
Were all besmear'd and dyed	Q2
And when they saw the darksome night	Q2
They sat them down and cried	Q2
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XVI	E
Thus wander'd these poor innocents	E2
Till death did end their grief	E
In one another's arms they died	Q2
As wanting due relief	E
No burial this pretty pair	D2
From any man receives	E2
Till Robin Redbreast piously	E2
Did cover them with leaves	E2
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XVII	E
And now the heavy wrath of God	Q2
Upon their uncle fell	U2
Yea fearful fiends did haunt his house	E2
His conscience felt an hell	U2
His barns were fired his goods consumed	Q2
His lands were barren made	Q2
His cattle died within the field	Q2
And nothing with him stay'd	Q2
	-
XVIII	E
And in a voyage to Portugal	V2
Two of his sons did die	E
And to conclude himself was brought	Q2
To want and misery	E2
He pawn'd and mortgaged all his land	Q2
Ere seven years came about	Q2
And now at last his wicked act	Q2
Did by this means come out	Q2
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XIX	E2
The fellow that did take in hand	Q2
These children for to kill	W2
Was for a robbery judged to die	E
Such was God's blessed will	W2
Who did confess the very truth	X2
As here hath been display'd	Q2
The uncle having died in jail	L2
Where he for debt was laid	Q2
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XX	E2
You that executors be made	Q2
And overse rs eke	Y2
Of children that be fatherless	E2
And infants mild and meek	Y2
Take you example by this thing	Z2
And yield to each his right	Q2
Lest God with suchlike misery	E2
Your wicked minds requite	Q2

Sir Arthur Quiller-couch

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