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The King’s been beating the drum

The King’s been beating the drum

To see all the ladies

And the first that e’er he saw

Did steal his heart away

Tell me, Marquis, do you know her?

Tell me, Marquis, do you know her?

Who is this lady fair?

And the marquis to the King did say

‘Sire, my own wife is she …’

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Saintonge,

seventeenth century