Kathy & Carol - Lady Maisery lyrics

She called to her little pageboy Who was her brother's son She told him quick as he could go To bring her lord safe home Now the very first mile he would walk And the second he would run And when he came to a broken, broken bridge He bent his breast and swum And when he came to the new castell The lord was set at meat; If you were to know as much as I How little you would eat! O is my tower falling, falling down Or doеs my bower burn? Or is my gay lady put to bed With a daughter or a son? O no, your towеr is not falling down Nor does your bower burn; But we are afraid ere you return Your lady will be dead and gone Come saddle, saddle my milk-white steed Come saddle my pony too That I may neither eat nor drink Till I come to the old castell Now when he came to the old castell He heard a big bell toll; And then he saw eight noble, noble men A bearing of a pall Lay down, lay down, that gentle, gentle corpse As it lay fast asleep That I may kiss her red ruby lips Which I used to kiss so sweet Six times he kissed her red ruby lips Nine times he kissed her chin Ten times he kissed her snowy, snowy breast Where love did enter in The lady was buried on that Sunday Before the prayer was done; And the lord he died on the next Sunday Before the prayer begun