The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

Act IV, Sc. 2, Dyce, VIII, 66.

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In Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Knight of the Burning Pestle,' we have the following stanza, which resembles #A# 23, but may equally well belong to 'The Douglas Tragedy:' see No 7, #B# 10, #C# 9, #D# 9:

He set her on a milk-white steed, And himself upon a grey; He never turned his face again, But he bore her quite away.