See saw, sack-a-day
Taken from MS. Douce, 357, fol. 124. See Echard's 'History of England,' book iii, chap. 1.
“See saw, sack-a-day;
Monmouth is a pretie boy,
Richmond is another,
Grafton is my onely joy,
And why should I these three destroy,
To please a pious brother!”
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