Then bespake good Queen Margaret, The tears fell from her eye: 10 "Leave off these wars, most noble king, Keep your fidelity. "The water runs swift and wondrous deep From bottom unto the brim; My brother Henry hath men good enough, 15 England is hard to win." "Away," quoth he, "with this silly fool! In prison fast let her lye: For she is come of the English blood, And for these words she shall die." 20 With that bespake Lord Thomas Howard, The Queens chamberlain that day; "If that you put Queen Margaret to death, Scotland shall rue it alway." Then in a rage King Jamie did say, 25 "Away with this foolish mome! He shall be hang'd, and the other burn'd, So soon as I come home." At Flodden-field the Scots came in, Which made our Englishmen fain; 30 At Bramstone-green this battel was seen, There was King Jamie slain. Then presently the Scots did fly, Their cannons they left behind; Their ensigns gay were won all away, 35 Our souldiers did beat them blind. To tell you plain, twelve thousand were slain That to the fight did stand, And many a prisoner took that day, The best in all Scotland. 40 That day made many a fatherless child,[L41] And many a widow poor, And many a Scottish gay lady Sate weeping in her bower.[L44] Jack with a fether was lapt all in lether, 45 His boastings were all in vain; He had such a chance with [a] new morrice-dance, He never went home again. 41-44. This stanza is the sixth in Deloney's copy, and is there clearly misplaced. 44. sweeping. QUEEN JEANIE. Jane Seymour, queen of Henry VIII., died shortly after giving birth to Prince Edward (Oct. 1537). There was a report that the Cæsarian operation had been necessary to effect the delivery, and on this story the present ballad is founded. There is a woful ditty on this subject in _The Crown Garland of Golden Roses_, Percy Society, vol. vi. p. 29 (or _Collection of Old Ballads_, ii. 115). The following piece is popular throughout Scotland. It is taken from Kinloch's _Ancient Scottish Ballads_, p. 116. A fragment had been previously published in Jamieson's _Popular Ballads_, i. 182. We have added another, but imperfect, version from a recent publication. Queen Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, travel'd six weeks and more, Till women and midwives had quite gi'en her o'er; "O if ye were women as women should be, Ye would send for a doctor, a doctor to me!"