Before the house the traitors
had led a mighty host;
On guard the foreign yeomen
stood bravely at their post.
But what avail’d their valour?
They all were doom’d to die;
And presently arose there
a gruesome butchery.
Before the house the traitors
had led a mighty host;
On guard the foreign yeomen
stood bravely at their post.
But what avail’d their valour?
They all were doom’d to die;
And presently arose there
a gruesome butchery.