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Our Singing Country
11   Out spoke the noble Fox, at the table he stood by, "Oh, gentlemen, consider on this extremity;
To hang a man for love is a murder, you may see,
So spare the life of Reilly, let him leave this coun-ter-ee."
12  "Good my lord, he stole from her, her diamonds and .her rings. Gold watch and silver buckles and many precious things, Which cost me in bright guineas more than five hundred pounds, I'll have the life of Reilly should I lose ten thousand pounds."
13   "Good my lord, I gave them him as tokens of true love, And we are a-parting I will them all remove,
If you have got them, Reilly, pray, send them home to me." "I will, my loving lady, with many thanks to thee."
14  "There is a ring among them I allow yourself to wear, With thirty locket diamonds well set in silver fair, And as a true-love token wear it on your right hand,
That you'll think of my broken heart when you're in a foreign land."
15  Then out spoke noble Fox: "You may let the prisoner go, The lady's oath has cleared him, as the jury all may know5 She has released her own true love, she has renewed her name,
May her honor bright gain high estate and her offspring rise to fame!"
JOHN RILEY
b^. No. 1504. Mrs. Lncy Garrison, Providence, Laurel County, Ky., 1937. See "George Reilly," Sh, 2:22$ Cox, p. 323.