And day comes on!

“Come now! Old swenkin! Rise up, from thy bed,

I see the signs upon the welkin spread,

If thou come not, the cost be on thy head.

And day comes on!

“And here I am since going down of sun,

And pray to God that is St. Mary’s son,

To bring thee safe back, my companion.

And day comes on.

“And thou out here beneath the porch of stone

Badest me to see that a good watch was done,

And now thou’lt none of me, and wilt have none

Of song of mine.”

(Bass voice from within.)

“Wait, my good fellow. For such joy I take

With her venust and noblest to my make

To hold embraced, and will not her forsake

For yammer of the cuckold,

Though day break.”

(Girart Bornello.)

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