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/ I. Lord Bateman vos a noble Lord, / A noble Lord of high degree; / He shipped his-self all aboard of a ship, / Some foreign country for to see.
/ II. He sail-ed east, he sail-ed vest, / Until he come to famed Tur-key, / Vere he vos taken, and put to prisin, / Until his life was quite wea-ry.