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Misfortune comes to every door, / And who can hope to 'scape its might? / And that can little Kirstine say, / And none alas with greater right.
It was the good Sir Peter, he / At fall of eve came home from Ting; / And it was little Kirstine fair, / That fell the knight to welcoming.