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"i forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair
to travel to carter hall for young tam lin is there
None that go by carter hall but they leave him a pledge
either their mantles of green or else their maidenhead"
Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
and she's gone to carter hall as fast as go can she
She'd not pulled a double rose, a rose but only two
when up there came young tam lin says "lady, pull no more"
"and why come you to carter hall without command from me?"
"i'll come and go", young janet said, "and ask no leave of thee"
Janet tied her kirtle green a bit above her knee
and she's gone to her father as fast as go can she
Well, up then spoke her father dear and he spoke meek and mild
"oh, and alas, janet," he said, "i think you go with child"
"well, if that be so," janet said, "myself shall bear the blame
there's not a knight in all your hall shall get the baby's name
For if my love were an earthly knight as he is an elfin grey
i'd not change my own true love for any knight you have"