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ARTHURIAN SONGS: 2. THE END by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR

First Line: QUEEN GUENEVERE A-MAYING RODE
Last Line: IN WHITE CLOTHES AND IN BLACK.
Subject(s): CONVENTS; COURTS & COURTIERS; NUNS;
"Now leave we Queen Guenever in Aymesbury, that was a nun in white clothes

and in black."
@3Morte d'Arthur.@1

QUEEN GUENEVERE a-maying rode
In green and gold, alack!
Queen Guenevere God's vassal died
In white clothes and in black.

In gold and green I follow her;
Nor God will call me back.
For I shall die in Aymesbury,
In white clothes and in black.



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