“ To feed my fair flock on the banks of the Lee.
⁠Let Fiora's fair bower its mourning put on,
And the feather'd songsters forget their e'ening song,
Let shepherds in concert for Damon lament,
Since his noble presence still give them content. ”

“ His words bound him not. since hers did not confine her:
And this is plain law, because Miss is a Minor. etc.
⁠Miss briskly reply'd that the law was too hard,
If she who is a Minor may not be a Ward:
In law thus confiding, she took it upon her,
By justice to mend those foul breaches of honour. etc.
⁠She handled him so, that few would, I warrant,
Would been in his coat on so sleeveless an errand :
She made him give bond for stamp'd Argent and Or,
And fabl'd his Shield with Gules blazon'd before. etc. ”

“ For this right by our Order is mark'd for a fast. etc.
⁠Then turning about to the hangman, he said,
Dispatch me, I pray thee, this troublesome blade,
For my cord and thy cord doth equally tie,
And we live by the gold for which other men die. ”

“ Saying, If she will not go, we'll get sweethearts enough,
⁠when we come to the town call'd Cokenny O.
O when that they came to the water so clear,
⁠that ran to the town they call Cokenny O,
The Captain sigh'd and said, we are many miles away,
⁠hear's a health to the bonny lass in Derby O.
When that they came to the very last town,
⁠and the town that they call Cokenny O,
His name was Captain Ward, he died for a maid,
⁠and he dy'd for the bonny lass in Derby O. ”

“ To ease heroes pain, by halter or gibbet. Derry, etc.
⁠There death breaks the shakles which force had put on,
And the hangman completes what the judge had begun,
There the 'squire of the pad, and the knight of the past,
Find their pains no more baulk'd, and their hopes no
⁠more crost. Derry down, etc.
⁠Great claims are there made, great secrets are known,
And the king, and the law, and the chief has his own ”