...true-gotten gear.' ' Yes, yes, father abbot, thy fault it is high,1 And now for the same thou needs must die ; For, except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from off thy body. ' And first,' quoth the king, ' when I'm in this stead, With my crown of gold so fair...

...my own ; And I trust that Your Grace will do me no dere, For spending of my own true-gotten gear.' ' Yes, yes, father abbot, thy fault it is high, And now for the same thou needs must die ; For, except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from off...

...geere. Yes, yes, father abbot, thy fault it is highe, And now for the same thou needest must dye ; For except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie. And first, quo' the king, when I'm in this stead, With my crowne of golde so faire on my head,...

...own true-gotten gear." "Yes, yes father abbot, thy fault is high, And now for the same thou needst must die; For except thou canst answer me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie. "And first," quo' the king, "when I'm in this stead, With my crown of gold so fair on my head,...

...what is my own ; And I trust your grace will do me no dere, For spending of my own true-gotten gear." "Yes, yes, father abbot, thy fault it is high, And...questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie." "And first," quo' the king, "when I'm in this stead, With my crown of gold so fair on my head,...

...the Abbot of Canterbury," inserted in Chappell's Popular Music, 351. There the King says . — " Tes, yes, father abbot, thy fault it is high, And now for...me questions three, Thy head shall be smitten from off thy body." A similar idea occurs in the ballad of " How Sir Hylleland wins his bride (Prior's Ancient...