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Who art thou, fair one, who usurp'st the place / Of Blanche, the lady of the matchless grace? / Come, fair and pretty, tell to me / Who, in thy life-time, thou might'st be.
Thou pretty art and fair, / But with the lady Blanche thou never must compare.
No need for Blanche her history to tell; / Whoever saw her face, they there did read it well.
But when I look on thee, I only know / There lived a pretty maid some hundred years ago.