Ballad of the Isle of France

King LOUIS on his bridge is he, He holds his daughter on his knee.

She asks a husband at his hand That is not worth a rood of land.

‘Give up your lover speedily, Or you within the tower must lie.’

‘Although I must the prison dree, I will not change my love for thee.

‘I will not change my lover fair Not for the mother that me bare.

‘I will not change my true lover For friends, or for my father dear.’

‘Now where are all my pages keen, And where are all my serving men?

‘My daughter must lie in the tower alway, Where she shall never see the day.’