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The King he has caught the fair mermaid, and deep ("The mermaid dances the floor upon") In the dungeon has placed her, to pine and to weep, Because his will she had not done.
The Queen of the Danes addressed two of her band: ("The mermaid dances the floor upon") "To come to my presence the mermaid command, For my will by her it shall be done."