Walsingham

1. ‘As you came from that holȳ* land
 of Walsingham,
Met you not with my true love
 by the way as you came?’

2. ‘How shall I, sir, your true love know
 that have met manȳ a ōne
As I came from that holȳ land
 that have come, that have gone?’

3. ‘She is ne͝ither white nor brown,
 but as the heav’ns she’s fair.
There is none hāve a form so divine
 on the earth, in the air.’

4. ‘Such a ōne did I meet, good sir,
 such an angel-like face,
Who appeared like a nymph, like a queen
 in her gait, in her grace.’

5. ‘She hath left me here all alone;
 all alone as unknown,
Who sometimes did me lead with herself,
 and me loved as her own.’

6. ‘What’s the cause she leaves you alone,
 and a new way doth take,
Who sometimes did you lead with herself,
 and her joy did you make?’

7. ‘I have loved her all my youth,
 and now old as you see;
Love lik’th not the falling fruit
 from the withered tree.

8. ‘Know that love is a careless child,
 and forgets promise past;
He is blind, he is deaf when he list,
 and of faith never fast.

9. ‘His desi͞res are a dureless content
 and a trustless joy;
He is won with a wȯrld of despair,
 and is lost with a toy.

10. ‘Such is love of womenkind,
 or the wȯrd so abused
Under which there ungrateful sex
 and hard hearts are excused.’

11. ‘Yeah, but love is a durable fi͞re
 in the mind e’er burning:
Never sick, never old, never dead;
 from himself ne’er turning.’