Cousin Kate quotes

• O Cousin Kate, my love was true,

  Your love was writ in sand:

  If he had fooled not me but you,

  If you stood where I stand,

  He had not won me with his love

  Nor bought me with his land:

  I would have spit into his face

  And not have taken his hand.
• My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride,
• He bound you with his ring:

  The neighbours call you good and pure

  Call me an outcast thing
• Now which of us has tenderer heart?

  You had the stronger wing.
• He wore me like a golden knot,

  He changed me like a glove:

  So now I moan an unclean thing

  Who might have been a dove.
• “He lifted you from mean estate

  To sit with him on high.”
• “O lady Kate, my Cousin Kate,

  You grow more fair than I:”
• “Your sire would give broad lands for one

  To wear his coronet.”