Old English ballads, a collection1864 |
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abbot Adam Bell Andrew Barton arrowes awaye ballad Bednall Green BIRKET FOSTER blow bold Robin Hood brave Caerlel Cumnor curtall fryer Dale daye dear doth downe Earl Douglas Edom fair Annet fast father fayre fellow fought gallant Gernutus gilt gold grace Greensleeves Grissel hand hanged hath heart heire of Linne High trolollie horse hundred hunt JOHN GILBERT king knee knight lady ladye Lancelot land Little John lord merrily merry miller myght never noble nut-browne bride old cap PATIENT GRISSEL Piercy pound pray pretty Bessee quoth ride Robin Hood sayd sayes Scadlocke sing Sir Andrew Barton slain sonne sweet tanner tell thee theyr THOMAS Thou art thou hast Thou shalt thou wilt thre took unto wend wife wold wood wouldst not love wyfe wyll Wyllyam of Cloudeslè yemen yonder young
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Page 260 - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day ; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear; Hounds are in their couples yelling. Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they: Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Page 248 - THE dews of summer night did fall ; The moon, sweet regent of the sky, Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.
Page 237 - By whose tough labours, and rough hands, We rip up first, then reap our lands. Crown'd with the ears of corn, now come, And, to the pipe, sing harvest home.
Page 90 - My maids, gae to my dressing-room. And dress to me my smock ; The one half is o the holland fine, The other o needle-work.
Page 265 - Which may be ours another day ; And therefore let's be merry. The client now his suit forbears, The prisoner's heart is eased. The debtor drinks away his cares, And for the time is pleased. Though others...
Page 252 - The oaks were shatter'd on the green ; Woe was the hour — for never more That hapless Countess e'er was seen ! And in that Manor now no more Is cheerful feast and sprightly ball ; For ever since that dreary hour Have spirits haunted Cumnor Hall. The village maids, with fearful glance Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall ; Nor ever lead the merry dance Among the groves of Cumnor Hall. Full many a traveller oft hath sigh'd, And pensive wept the Countess' fall, As wandering onwards they've espied The...
Page 247 - I in these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice...
Page 87 - LORD THOMAS and Fair Annet Sate a' day on a hill ; Whan night was cum, and sun was sett, They had not talkt their fill. 2 Lord Thomas said a word in jest, Fair Annet took it ill : ' A, I will nevir wed a wife Against my ain friends
Page 44 - What is thy name?" then said Robin Hood, "Come tell me, without any fail." "By the faith of my body," then said the young man, "My name it is Allin a Dale.
Page 224 - Twixt one another secretly : I mark their gloze, And it disclose To them whom they have wronged so : When I have done, I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho, ho, ho ! When men do traps and engines...