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emma topping - cousin kate lyrics

i was a cottage maiden
hardened by sun and air
contented with my cottage mates
not mindful i was fair
why did a great lord find me out
and praise my flaxen hair?
why did a great lord find me out
to fill my heart with care?

he lured me to his palace home +
woe’s me for joy thereof+
to lead a shameless shameful life
his plaything and his love
he wore me like a silken knot
he changed me like a glove;
so now i moan, an unclean thing
who might havе been a dove

o lady kate, my cousin kate
you grеw more fair than i:
he saw you at your father’s gate
chose you, and cast me by
he watched your steps along the lane
your work among the rye;
he lifted you from mean estate
to sit with him on high
because you were so good and pure
he bound you with his ring:
the neighbors call you good and pure
call me an outcast thing
even so i sit and howl in dust
you sit in gold and sing:
now which of us has tenderer heart?
you had the stronger wing

o cousin kate, my love was true
your love was writ in sand:
if he had fooled not me but you
if you stood where i stand
he’d not have won me with his love
nor bought me with his land;
i would have spit into his face
and not have taken his hand

yet i’ve a gift you have not got
and seem not like to get:
for all your clothes and wedding+ring
i’ve little doubt you fret
my fair+haired son, my shame, my pride
cling closer, closer yet:
your father would give his lands for one
to wear his coronet

- emma topping lyrics

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