Note 174 — 110 THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
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He called down his merry men all, By one, by two, by three; William would fain have been the first, But now the last is he.
Act IV, Sc. 2, Dyce, VIII, 66.
In Beaumont and Fletcher's 'Knight of the Burning Pestle,' we have the following stanza, which resembles A 23, but may equally well belong to 'The Douglas Tragedy:' see No 7, B 10, C 9, D 9:
He set her on a milk-white steed, And himself upon a grey; He never turned his face again, But he bore her quite away.
Act II, Sc. 8, Dyce, II, 172.