The Death of Queen Jane
No: 170; variant: 170E
- 'YE midwives and women-kind, do one thing for me;
Send for my mother, to come and see me.'
- Her mother was sent for, who came speedilie:
'O Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, are ye gaun to dee?'
- 'O mother, dear mother, do one thing for me;
O send for King Henry, to come and see me.'
- King Henry was sent for, who came speedilie:
'O Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, are ye gaun to dee?'
- 'King Henry, King Henry, do one thing for me;
O send for a doctor, to come and see me.'
- The doctor was sent for, who came speedilie:
'O Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, are ye gaun to dee?'
- 'O doctor, oh doctor, do one thing for me;
Open my left side, and let my babe free.'
- He opened her left side, and then all was oer,
And the best flower in England will flourish no more.