Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

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upon the twelfth day of October, he had a son
born at Hampton- Court.—But the joy of his
birth was much allay'd by the departure of the
admirable queen, who, contrary to the common
opinion of many writers, dy'd twelve days after
the birth of this prince, as appears from unques-
tionable manuscripts; having been well deliver'd.
and without any incision, as others have mali-
ciously reported. This was a great affliction
to the king; for of all his wives, she was the
dearest and most charming to him; and his grief
for that loss is given as the reason why he con-
tinued two years a widower."
—
Hist ofEngland,
1720, fol. p. 289.
A few stanzas of this ballad appear in Mr.
Jamieson's collection, vol. 1, p. 182.