Now thine own life has got a shadow on't already that I have helped to cast, so take the brightness of it while thou mayst, and get thee gone.

But for this girl, I know her for a comely lass and good-hearted, and have wondered often how she came to have _him_ for her father.

I am glad now I have not his blood on my hands; and never would have gone to take it then, for all the evil he had brought on me, but that the lives of every mother's son hung on his life.

So make thy mind at ease, and get thee gone and see these streams and trees and stones thou talkest of.

Yet if thou'rt shot upon the Down, or taken off to jail, blame thine own folly and not me.