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Love hath softened a kingly mind,

Grizzy hath mercy to councillors taught.

Her friends at Court have prieven the life

O’ Grizzy’s banished father!

She’s wedded unto a German Knight,

Her bairnies blithe with her sire remain,

She’s cast the laddie’s clouts away,

And her raven hair is growing again.

What think ye, gentles o’ every degree,

Of Cochrane’s Bonny Grizzy?

(Englished)

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She said, “This narrow chamber is not for me the place,”

Said the Lady Kunigunde of Kynast!

“’Tis pleasanter on horseback, I’ll hie me to the chase,”

Said the Lady Kunigunde!

She said, “The Knight who weds me, I do require of him,”

Said the Lady Kunigunde of Kynast!

“To gallop round the Kynast and break not neck nor limb.”

A noble Knight came forward and galloped round the wall;

The Lady Kunigunde of Kynast,

The lady without lifting a finger saw him fall.

And yet another galloped around the battlement;

The Lady Kunigunde,

The lady saw him tumble, yet did she not relent.

And rider after rider spurred round his snorting horse;