In love and war Fortune is all
There’s nothing she can’t do;
Her spinning wheel brings changes round,
And things have changed for you!

For Lancaster has executed
Piers Gaveston
At Blacklow Hill in Oxfordshire,
But knows not what he’s done.

Earl de Warenne has quarrelled with
Lancaster for good reason,
Because he knows that this cruel act
Is tantamount to Treason!

And now he wants to find a way
To get at Lancaster,
In hope of proving to the king
That he did not concur.

This sets you free of Lancaster,
And feudal bonds thereof,
Now no offence to fealty
Can handicap your love.

So you suggest a clever plan
That combines love with malice:
You’ll go to Pontefract at night
And abduct Lady Alice!

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