her saw the magic mirror was cracked from side to side. ‘Alas, for my
disobedience!’ she exclaimed, ‘the mirror is broken. The web has gone!
The curse is upon me! Where shall I go, or what shall I do?’
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro’ the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look’d down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack’d from side to side;
‘The curse is come upon me,’ cried
The Lady of Shalott.
Coming to herself she noticed how differently everything around her
had become, and leaving the castle, proceeded to the river where she
found a boat beneath the willows, on whose prow she wrote in clear
letters:--The Lady of Shalott.
Down she came and found a boat
Beneath a willow left afloat,
And round about the prow she wrote
The Lady of Shalott.
Stepping into the boat, she gazed for a moment on Camelot, and knew her
end was near.
And down the river’s dim expanse
Like some bold seër in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance--
With a glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
Lying down in the boat she crossed her hands upon her breast, and
singing a beautiful song, allowed the boat to drift down the stream to
Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.
Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right--
The leaves upon her falling light--
Thro’ the noises of the night
She floated down to Camelot:
And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott.
As the boat approached the city of Camelot no song was heard, and the
curiosity of the people being aroused at the boat gliding along by
itself they drew it ashore, only to find in it the dead body of the
princess. As sir Lancelot drew near and beheld the beautiful form of
the lady he exclaimed:--‘How peaceful and lovely a face! God grant
mercy to her and to us too, that we also may lead pure and noble lives.’
But Lancelot mused a little space;
He said, ‘She has a lovely face;
God in his mercy lend her grace,
The Lady of Shalott.’
_Lady of Shalott._
LADY OF THE LAKE.
A mysterious personage. She gave to king Arthur the sword Excalibur,
in recompense for which she asked for the head of Balin (_q.v._)
because he had slain her brother, but the king refused the request. ‘Ye
would have my head,’ said Balin, ‘therefore ye shall lose thine own,’
and smote off her head in the presence of king Arthur. She was denoted
by the sacred fish on her breast.
_Morte d’Arthur_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Passing of Arthur_.
LAIS.
_Becket._ Where, my liege? With Phryne,
Or Lais, or thy Rosamund, or another?
_Henry._ My Rosamund is no Lais,
Thomas Becket;
The name of two Greek courtesans of extraordinary beauty. One is said
to have been born in Corinth and flourished during the Peloponnesian
war. The other was a native of Sicily, but went to Corinth when a child
and is said to have been stoned to death by the Thessalian women out of
jealousy.
_Becket._
LAMB.
= The Saviour of the World.
_St. Agnes’ Eve_;
_Columbus_.
LAMBERT.
and there was Lambert
Who can foresee himself?
John Lambert; became a convert to protestantism; chaplain to the
English factory at Antwerp; imprisoned 1532, but released on the death
of archbishop Wareham in the same year; condemned and burnt to death
for denying the doctrine of transubstantiation.
_Queen Mary._
LAMBETH.
LAMBETH PALACE.
A London municipal and parliamentary Borough. The Palace is the
official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
_Queen Mary._
LAMECH.
An old song vexes my ear;
But that of Lamech is mine.
_See Genesis iv. 23._
_Maud._
LAMMAS.
Nay--and she will not marry till Richard come,
And that’s at latter Lammas--never perhaps.
= The Greek Kalends, never.
_The Foresters._
LANCASTER.
And York’s white rose as red as Lancaster’s,
= Wars of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster.
_Aylmer’s Field._
LANCELOT.
The son of king Ban and Helen, and the father of sir Galahad, the
chastest of the 150 knights, who was allotted the ‘Siege Perilous.’ He
was stolen in infancy by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, who threw him
into the water, in consequence of which he was called sir Launcelot du
Lake. He was the bravest of all the knights and was honoured by king
Arthur more than all the rest.
Then Arthur charged his warrior whom he loved
And honour’d most, Sir Lancelot, to ride forth
And bring the Queen;--
He fell in love with Guinevere (_q.v._) who ordered him to slay the
knights who kept the door, but sir Modred escaping informed king
Arthur, who condemned Guinevere on account of her unfaithfulness
to be burnt, but when at the stake she was rescued by Lancelot. In
consequence of this guilty passion for the queen he was commanded to
avoid the court, and as king Arthur refused to be reconciled to him
he left the realm and retired to Benwick. Going one day to joust at
Astolat he left his blazoned shield in charge of Elaine (_q.v._), the
fair maid of Astolat. Being wounded in the encounter, he was carefully
nursed by Elaine. Upon being restored to health he claimed his shield
and bid the damsel good-bye, whereupon she confessed her love for him;
but being told that his love was another’s, pined away and died.
When the news of the ‘last weird battle in the west,’ in which king
Arthur received his mortal wound, reached Lancelot, he made haste to
see his noble master to seek his pardon for the injury he had done him.
Upon his arrival he found the king had passed away, and kneeling down
on the earth wept and prayed heartily for his soul. Going in search
of Guinevere he found the queen in a nunnery at Almesbury (_q.v._),
and after taking farewell of her withdrew into solitude, and for
six years led a life of prayer and fasting. In a vision he was told
that Guinevere was no more, and hastening to Almesbury found the news
too true. With reverence and out of love and gratitude for Arthur he
took the body of the queen and laid it by the side of king Arthur in
Glastonbury Abbey, after which he again withdrew to his lonely cell;
and some weeks later the spirit of this bold warrior passed away and he
was buried in Joyous Guard.
_Lady of Shalott_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Coming of Arthur_;
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Merlin and Vivien_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Pelleas and Ettarre_;
_Last Tournament_;
_Guinevere_.
LANDBIRD.
at length
The landbird, and the branch with berries on it,
The carven staff
A reference of the nearness of land which Columbus sighted on October
11, 1492.
_Columbus._
LANE (Miriam).
_See_ =Miriam, Miriam Lane=.
LAPIDOTH.
there on the roofs
Like that great dame of Lapidoth she sang.
Has reference to the Hebrew prophetess Deborah, wife of Lapidoth. She
joined Barak in a campaign to deliver Israel from the tyranny of Jabin,
king of Canaan, and utterly defeated the Canaanites under Sisera near
the brook Kishon. After the victory Deborah and Barak sang a song of
triumph known as the song of Deborah. _See Judges iv. and v._
_The Princess._
LAPWING.
A bird of the plover family called also peewit.
_Locksley Hall_;
_Queen Mary_.
LAR AND LUCUMO.
Appraised the Lycian custom, spoke of those
That lay at wine with Lar and Lucumo;
Two titles of honour borne respectively by priests and nobles among the
inhabitants of Etruria, an ancient country in central Italy.
_The Princess._
LARCH.
A genus of coniferous trees, distinct from firs, with erect and
regularly tapering stem, and small branches.
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_.
LARIANO.
Name of the vessel which conveyed the poet and his wife while spending
a holiday in Italy, to the various Italian ports.
As on the Lariano crept
To that fair port below the castle
Of Queen Theodolind, where we slept;
_The Daisy._
LARI MAXUME.
The rich Virgilian rustic measure
Of Lari Maxume, all the way,
= ‘O great Larius’ _i.e._ ‘O great Lake of Como.’
_The Daisy._
LARK.
A well-known singing bird of the genus _Alauda_.
_Rosalind_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_Audley Court_;
_Talking Oak_;
_Day Dream_;
_Poet’s Song_;
_The Princess_;
_The Window_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Holy Grail_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_First Quarrel_;
_Northern Cobbler_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Ancient Sage_;
_The Flight_;
_Tomorrow_;
_Progress of Spring_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_The Cup_;
_The Falcon_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_.
LATANGOR.
The King Brandagoras of Latangor,
With Anguisant of Erin, Morganore,
And Lot of Orkney.
_Coming of Arthur._
LATERAN.
A celebrated church in Rome, so called from its occupying the site
of the palace of the Laterani family; and which was until 1308 the
residence of the popes of Rome. No fewer than five Œcumenical councils
have met within its walls.
_Harold_;
_Becket_.
LATIMER.
Bishop of Worcester, son of a Leicestershire yeoman. At the beginning
of the Reformation was an earnest advocate of popery, but eventually
became a convert to the reformed faith. Received permission to preach
throughout England, and his fame reaching Henry VIII he was commanded
to preach before that monarch, who conferred upon him the bishopric
of Worcester in 1535, which See he resigned in 1539 because he could
not support the Act of the Six Articles. Twice under Henry VIII he
was committed to the Tower, but was released on the accession of
Edward VI, who would have restored him to his diocese but he refused;
assisted Cranmer in framing the Homilies and in completing the work
of the Reformation. In 1555, upon the accession of Mary, he was again
committed to the Tower, whence he was with Cranmer sent to Oxford
to defend his views before a Commission, and being found guilty of
heresy was condemned--and with bishop Ridley (_q.v._) burnt to death
opposite Balliol College, Oxford, 1555. After commending his soul to
God he turned to his companion and exclaimed, ‘Be of good cheer, Master
Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle in
England, which by God’s grace will never be put out.’
_Queen Mary._
LAUDAMUS.
And then the great ‘Laudamus’ rose to heaven.
The _Te Deum Laudamus_. A hymn which forms part of the morning service
in the English Church. The authorship is unknown, though tradition
ascribes it to St. Ambrose.
_Columbus._
LAUNCELOT.
_See_ =Lancelot=.
LAURENCE.
Not thrice your branching limes have blown
Since I beheld young Laurence dead.
A former lover of lady Clara Vere de Vere, whom she first loved, and
afterwards rejected. His grief at her conduct probably hastened his
death.
_Lady Clara Vere de Vere._
LAVAINE.
A Knight of the Round Table, brother of Elaine, and son of sir Bernard,
baron of Astolat. Displayed great bravery in battle on behalf of King
Arthur; and afterwards departed to Brittany with Lancelot who created
him earl of Arminak.
_Lancelot and Elaine._
LAWRENCE.
_See_ =St. Lawrence=.
LAWRENCE.
Voice of the dead whom we loved, our Lawrence the best of the brave:
Sir Henry Lawrence, brigadier-general, and chief commissioner in Oudh.
At the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny he was appointed in command of
the troops in Oudh, and was killed while holding Lucknow against the
mutineers. His death was a blow to the little garrison, but they held
out until relieved by sir Colin Campbell.
_Defence of Lucknow._
LAWRENCE AYLMER.
Lawrence and Edmund Aylmer were brothers. Edmund on account of ill
health left for Italy where he died. The brothers parted by a certain
brook known to both since childhood. Near the brook Lawrence met Katie
Willows, a farmer’s only child. She had quarrelled with her lover
James Willows. Lawrence asked who had angered James and found out from
Katie’s manner that he himself was the cause of some little jealousy.
He however succeeded in putting an end to the quarrel, by engaging her
father in conversation, while Katie and her lover met.
_The Brook._
LAZARUS.
When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
And home to Mary’s house return’d,
Was this demanded--if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
Has reference to the raising from the dead of Lazarus, brother of
Martha and Mary. _John xi._
_In Memoriam._
LAZARUS.
When Dives loathed the times, and paced his land
In fear of worse,
And sanguine Lazarus felt a vacant hand
Fill with _his_ purse.
Has reference to the beggar in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.
_Luke xvi. 19-31._
_To Mary Boyle._
LAZARUS (Saint).
By St. Lazarus, no!
I am confounded by thee. Go in peace.
Brother of Martha and Mary, and reputed first bishop of Marseilles.
_Becket._
LEA (Sir Richard).
_See_ =Richard, Richard Lea, Richard of the Lea=.
LEA (Walter).
_See_ =Walter, Walter Lea=.
LEAR.
A legendary British king, hero of one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. In
his old age he divided his kingdom between two of his elder daughters,
on condition that each should alternately, month by month, provide him
with a home. They however showed him very scant hospitality, whereupon
the youngest daughter Cordelia--who had been disinherited, and who had
married the king of France, raised an army in order to dethrone her
sisters, but was defeated and put in prison where she died. The elder
sister then murdered her younger sister from jealousy, after which she
committed suicide herself.
_Promise of May._
LEBANON.
O, art thou sighing for Lebanon
In the long breeze that streams to thy delicious East,
Sighing for Lebanon,
The lofty mountain-range in the southern part of Syria.
_Maud._
LEBANONIAN CEDAR.
‘Madam, he the wisest man
Feasted the woman wisest then, in halls
Of Lebanonian cedar:
A mountain range in Palestine. Originally the mountains were covered
with trees, but are now almost bare, only a few of the famous cedars
remaining.
_The Princess._
LEE (Annie).
_See_ =Enoch, Enoch Arden=.
LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN.
I read, before my eyelids dropt their shade,
_The Legend of Good Women_, long ago
Sung by the morning star of song, who made
His music heard below;
A poem by Chaucer, consisting of nine legends and a prologue,
celebrating the faithfulness of the brides of ancient song: Cleopatra,
Thisbe, Dido, Hypsipyle and Medea, Lucrece, Ariadne, Philomela,
Phillis, and Hypermnestra.
_Dream of Fair Women._
LEICESTER.
The Duke hath gone to Leicester; Carew stirs
In Devon:
The capital of Leicestershire.
_Queen Mary._
LEICESTER (Lord).
Robert de Beaumont, first earl of Leicester. Was present at the council
of Northampton, 1164.
_Becket._
LENNOX (Lady).
_Courtenay._ --made you follow
The Lady Suffolk and the Lady Lennox?--
You,
The heir presumptive.
Lady Margaret Douglas, niece of Henry VIII, who in 1544 married Matthew
Stewart, earl of Lennox; planned marriage between her son lord Darnley
and Mary queen of Scots; imprisoned for treasonable intentions by
Elizabeth in 1562; released, but again imprisoned in 1565; released
immediately after the murder of Darnley, and at the court of Elizabeth
denounced Mary queen of Scots for the crime. Her ambition was realized
in 1567 by the accession of her grandson, James VI, to the throne of
England. She died in 1578.
_Queen Mary._
LENT-LILY.
= the daffodil, as flowering in Lent.
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Progress of Spring_.
LEODOGRAN.
King of Cameliard, and father of Guinevere. King Arthur rescued him
from king Rience of North Wales. Uther gave him the famous Round Table
which would seat 150 knights, and when king Arthur married Guinevere,
Leodogran gave him the table with 100 knights as a wedding gift.
_Coming of Arthur._
LEOFRIC.
Abbot Alfwig,
Leofric, and all the monks of Peterboro’
Strike for the king;
A nephew of earl Leofric, and abbot of Peterborough 1053-66. Was
present at the battle of Senlac.
_Harold._
LEOFWIN.
Son of earl Godwin; accompanied his father in exile in 1051, and
returned with him and was made earl of the present counties of Kent,
Surrey, Essex and Middlesex. Accompanied his brother Harold to the
battle of Stamford-bridge in 1066, and in the same year fought at
Senlac where he was slain.
_Harold._
LEOLIN.
A barrister, brother of Averill the rector of the parish in which
Aylmer’s hall was situated; he was in love with Edith, daughter and
heiress of sir Aylmer and lady Aylmer (_q.v._).
_Aylmer’s Field._
LEONARD.
A poet who was spending a holiday in Llanberis, but was sought out by
his friends. His morning had been spent in writing lines concerning
a Golden Age that was to be brought about by the peaceful growth of
commerce binding the nations together. He said that in the Golden
Year wealth will be more equally distributed, but men will not all be
reduced, as in socialistic schemes, to one dead level.
_Golden Year._
LEONARD.
Son of Edith and of the boy lover in _Locksley Hall_. He was drowned at
sea when quite a young man. The speaker, talking to his grandson, says:
Gone our sailor son thy father, Leonard early lost at sea;
Thou alone, my boy, of Amy’s kin and mine art left to me.
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
LEOPARD.
A rapacious quadruped of the cat tribe, a native of Southern Asia and
Africa.
_The Princess._
LETTY.
LETTY HILL.
Millionaire’s daughter, who fell in love with a visitor to the lake,
but on being found in his company was forced by trustees and aunts and
uncles to forsake him and marry Sir Robert (_q.v._).
_Edwin Morris._
LEVERET.
A hare in its first year.
_Audley Court._
LEWES.
Were those your sires who fought at Lewes?
Battle of Lewes, 1264, between Henry III and the barons under Simon de
Montfort.
_Third of February._
LIBYAN.
‘We drank the Libyan Sun to sleep, and lit
Lamps which out-burn’d Canopus. O my life
In Egypt!
A district in north Africa.
_Dream of Fair Women._
LIGHT BRIGADE.
Consisted of the 13th Light Dragoons, the 17th Lancers, the 11th
Hussars, the 4th Light Dragoons, and the 8th Hussars commanded by
lord Cardigan, who made the famous charge at the battle of Balaclava,
October 25, 1854.
_Charge of the Light Brigade._
LILAC.
A shrub bearing flowers of a delicate purple tint.
_On a Mourner_;
_The Princess_.
LILIA.
One of the young ladies engaged at the college founded by princess
Ida, and supposed to be chaperoned by a certain aunt Elizabeth. A very
lively sort of person. At the time of speaking, Lilia with others
was spending a day at the house of sir Walter Vivian, and during
the afternoon aunt Elizabeth was slightly offended at the frivolous
behaviour of Lilia and a certain Walter.
_The Princess._
LILIAN.
The subject of a short poem written in praise of her. She is described
by the poet as resembling a fairy with her vivacious manner:
Airy, fairy Lilian,
Flitting, fairy Lilian,
_Lilian._
LILY.
A genus of plants of many species, producing flowers of beauty and
variety of colour.
_Supposed Confessions of a Second-rate Sensitive Mind_;
_Ode to Memory_;
_Adeline_;
_Lady of Shalott_;
_Œnone_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_Sir Galahad_;
_Lady Clare_;
_To E. L._;
_The Princess_;
_City Child_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_Geraint and Enid_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Voyage of Maeldune_;
_Ancient Sage_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_.
LILY MAID OF ASTOLAT.
Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat,
High in her chamber up a tower to the east
Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot;
= Elaine (_q.v._).
_Lancelot and Elaine._
LIME.
The linden tree.
_Margaret_;
_Lady Clara Vere de Vere_;
_On a Mourner_;
_Gardener’s Daughter_;
_Talking Oak_;
_The Princess_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Maud_;
_To Ulysses_.
LIMOURS.
= Doorm (_q.v._).
_Marriage of Geraint_;
_Geraint and Enid_.
LINNET.
A singing bird of the finch family.
_Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere_;
_The Princess_;
_Minnie and Winnie_;
_The Window_;
_In Memoriam_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Guinevere_;
_Lover’s Tale_;
_Progress of Spring_.
LINTWHITE.
= Linnet.
_Claribel._
LION.
A fierce quadruped of the genus _Felis_ found in southern Asia and in
many parts of Africa.
_Lady Clara Vere de Vere_;
_Dream of Fair Women_;
_Locksley Hall_;
_Aylmer’s Field_;
_The Princess_;
_The Daisy_;
_Maud_;
_Gareth and Lynette_;
_Balin and Balan_;
_Lancelot and Elaine_;
_Holy Grail_;
_The Revenge_;
_Tiresias_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_St. Telemachus_;
_The Foresters_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_The Cup_.
LIONEL.
_See_ =Julian=.
LIONESS.
A female lion.
_The Princess_;
_Demeter and Persephone_;
_The Foresters_.
LISBON.
The capital of Portugal.
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington._
LITTLECHESTER.
_Promise of May._
LITTLE JOHN.
Robin Hood’s lieutenant. His name is supposed to have been John Little,
but standing over seven feet in height, his companion Will Stutely in
merry mood reversed the names.
O, here is my hand, the stranger reply’d,
I’ll serve you with all my whole heart;
My name is John Little, a man of good mettle;
Ne’re doubt me, for I’ll play my part.
* * * * *
He was, I must tell you, but seven foot high,
And, may be, an ell in the waste;
* * * * *
Brave Stutely came then, with seven yeomen,
And did in this manner proceed:
This infant was called John Little, quoth he;
Which name shall be changed anon:
The words we’ll transpose; so wherever he goes,
His name shall be call’d Little John.
Ritson: _Robin Hood, Vol. II._
He lies buried in the churchyard of Hathersage in Derbyshire, the grave
being over seven feet in length. His ‘goode stout bowe of best yew
tree’ is preserved at Cannon hall, near Barnsley.
_The Foresters._
LIZARD.
A family of four-footed reptiles.
_Œnone_;
_Enoch Arden_.
LIZARD-POINT.
May never saw dismember thee,
Nor wielded axe disjoint,
Thou art the fairest-spoken tree
From here to Lizard-point.
Headland on the south coast of Cornwall.
_Talking Oak._
LLANBERIS.
we that day had been
Up Snowdon; and I wish’d for Leonard there,
And found him in Llanberis:
A small town at the foot of mount Snowdon.
_Golden Year._
LLANBERRIS.
Yet once when first
I came on Lake Llanberris in the dark,
A moonless night with storm--
_Sisters (Evelyn and Edith)._
LOCKSLEY.
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
LOCKSLEY HALL.
An imaginary place.
_Locksley Hall_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_.
LOCKSLEY SHIELD.
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
LOCKSLEY TOWER.
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After._
LODI.
A town in Lombardy, famous for the victory of Buonaparte over the
Austrians, 1796.
_The Daisy._
LOMBARDY.
_Queen Mary._
LONDON (City of).
_Edwin Morris_;
_Locksley Hall_;
_Ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington_;
_Boädicea_;
_Maud_;
_To the Queen, II_;
_Locksley Hall Sixty Years After_;
_The Dawn_;
_Queen Mary_;
_Harold_;
_Becket_;
_Promise of May_;
_The Foresters_;
_To E. Fitzgerald_.
LONDON (Bishop of).
_Becket._
LONDON BRIDGE.
The first bridge is said to have been built by the Romans. In 1008
it was broken down in the fighting which took place between Ethelred
and the Danes who had gained possession of the city of London. This
incident is the subject of a Scandinavian poem
London Bridge is broken down--
Gold is won and bright renown.
Shields resounding,
War-horns sounding,
Hildur shouting in the din!
Arrows singing,
Mail-coats ringing--
Odin makes our Olaf win!’
Under William Rufus the bridge was repaired, but during the Kentish
rising in 1471 it was attacked by the Kentish men under the leadership
of Thomas Fauconberg. During the last 700 years it has been destroyed
and rebuilt on several occasions; the present structure dating from
1831.
There is an old song entitled _London Bridge_, the authorship of which
is unknown. Several versions of this song are given. Rodwell’s version
in his _Old London Bridge_ commences:--
London Bridge is broken down;
Dance o’er, Lady Lea.
London Bridge is broken down
With a gay La-dee.
while John o’ London’s translation in his _London Stories_ is:
London Bridge is broken down;
Dance over, my Lady Lee.
London Bridge is broken down
With a gay Ladye.
A later version is as follows:--
London Bridge is broken down;
Dance over my Lady Lee.