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+<h1>The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, by Charles
+Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Illustrated by George Cruikshank</h1>
+<pre>
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre>
+<p>Title: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman</p>
+<p>Author: Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray</p>
+<p>Release Date: April 14, 2005 [eBook #15618]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Jason Isbell, Ben Beasley,<br />
+ and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h1>THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN.</h1>
+
+<h3>ILLUSTRATED BY</h3>
+
+<h2>GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.</h2>
+
+<h6>LONDON:</h6>
+
+<h6>CHARLES TILT, FLEET STREET.</h6>
+
+<h6>AND MUSTAPHA SYRIED, CONSTANTINOPLE.</h6>
+
+<h6>MDCCCXXXIX.</h6>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><a name="Warning_to_the_Public" id="Warning_to_the_Public" />
+</p>
+<h2>Warning to the Public</h2>
+
+<h2>CONCERNING</h2>
+
+<h2>THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN.</h2>
+
+
+<p>In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I
+am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic
+Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he
+will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure
+all to whom these presents may come, that &quot;<i>I</i> am the original.&quot; This
+affecting legend is given in the following pages precisely as I have
+frequently heard it sung on Saturday nights, outside a house of general
+refreshment (familiarly termed a wine vaults) at Battle-bridge. The singer
+is a young gentleman who can scarcely have numbered nineteen summers, and
+who before his last visit to the treadmill, where he was erroneously
+incarcerated for six months as a vagrant (being unfortunately mistaken for
+another gentleman), had a very melodious and plaintive tone of voice,
+which, though it is now somewhat impaired by gruel and such a getting up
+stairs for so long a period, I hope shortly to find restored. I have taken
+down the words from his own mouth at different periods, and have been
+careful to preserve his pronunciation, together with the air to which he
+does so much justice. Of his execution of it, however, and the intense
+melancholy which he communicates to such passages of the song as are most
+susceptible of such an expression, I am unfortunately unable to convey to
+the reader an adequate idea, though I may hint that the effect seems to me
+to be in part produced by the long and mournful drawl on the last two or
+three words of each verse.</p>
+
+<p>I had intended to have dedicated my imperfect illustrations of this
+beautiful Romance to the young gentleman in question. As I cannot find,
+however, that he is known among his friends by any other name than &quot;The
+Tripe-skewer,&quot; which I cannot but consider as a <i>soubriquet</i>, or
+nick-name; and as I feel that it would be neither respectful nor proper to
+address him publicly by that title, I have been compelled to forego the
+pleasure. If this should meet his eye, will he pardon my humble attempt to
+embellish with the pencil the sweet ideas to which he gives such feeling
+utterance? And will he believe me to remain his devoted admirer,</p>
+
+<p class="right">GEORGE CRUIKSHANK?</p>
+
+<p>P.S.&mdash;The above is not my writing, nor the notes either, nor am I on
+familiar terms (but quite the contrary) with the Black Bear. Nevertheless I
+admit the accuracy of the statement relative to the public singer whose
+name is unknown, and concur generally in the sentiments above expressed
+relative to him.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/signature.jpg" width="200" height="78" alt="(signature: George Cruikshank)" title="(signature: George Cruikshank)" />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/music.jpg" width="400" height="527" alt="Musical Score" title="Musical Score" />
+</div>
+<p class="center">Transcibers note: The music has been digitized with Lilypond. See these versions:<br />
+<a href="music/ballad.ly">Lilypond</a><br />
+<a href="music/ballad.midi">MIDI</a><br />
+<a href="music/ballad.pdf">Acrobat (PDF)</a><br />
+<a href="music/ballad.png">PNG</a><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="The_Loving_Ballad_Of_Lord_Bateman" id="The_Loving_Ballad_Of_Lord_Bateman" />The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>I.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Lord Bateman vos a noble Lord,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A noble Lord of high degree;<br /></span>
+<span>He shipped his-self all aboard of a ship,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Some foreign country for to see.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>*<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<div class="sidenote">*For the notes to this beautiful Poem, see the end of the work.</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate1.jpg" width="400" height="502" alt="Lord Bateman as he appeared previous to his embarkation." title="Lord Bateman as he appeared previous to his embarkation." />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate2.jpg" width="400" height="519" alt="The Turk&#39;s only daughter approaches to mitigate the sufferings of Lord Bateman!--" title="The Turk&#39;s only daughter approaches to mitigate the sufferings of Lord Bateman!--" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><!-- Page 11 --><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11"></a>
+<span class="i4"><b>II.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>He sail-ed east, he sail-ed vest,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Until he come to famed Tur-key,<br /></span>
+<span>Vere he vos taken, and put to prisin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Until his life was quite wea-ry.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>III.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>All in this prisin there grew a tree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">O! there it grew so stout and strong,<br /></span>
+<span>Vere he vos chain-ed all by the middle<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Until his life vos almost gone.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate3.jpg" width="400" height="504" alt="The Turk' daughter expresses a wish as Lord Bateman was hers." title="The Turk&#39;s daughter expresses a wish as Lord Bateman was hers." />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>IV.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>This Turk<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> he had one ounly darter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The fairest my two eyes e'er see,<br /></span>
+<span>She steele the keys of her father's prisin,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And swore Lord Bateman she would let go free.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>V.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O she took him to her father's cellar,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And guv to him the best of vine;<br /></span>
+<span>And ev'ry holth she dronk unto him,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Vos, &quot;I vish Lord Bateman as you vos mine!&quot;<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate4.jpg" width="400" height="508" alt="The &quot;WOW.&quot;" title="The &quot;WOW.&quot;" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>VI.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O have you got houses, have you got land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And does Northumberland belong to thee?<br /></span>
+<span>And what would you give to the fair young lady<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As out of prisin would let you go free?&quot;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>VII.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O I've got houses, and I've got land,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And half Northumberland belongs to me;<br /></span>
+<span>And I vill give it all to the fair young lady<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As out of prisin vould let me go free.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate5.jpg" width="400" height="505" alt="The Turk&#39;s daughter, bidding his Lordship farewell, is impressed with a foreboding that she will see him no more!&mdash;" title="The Turk&#39;s daughter, bidding his Lordship farewell, is impressed with a foreboding that she will see him no more!&mdash;" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>VIII.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O in sevin long years, I'll make a wow<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For sevin long years, and keep it strong,<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a><br /></span>
+<span>That if you'll ved no other voman,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">O I vill v-e-ed no other man.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>IX.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O She took him to her father's harbour,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And guv to him a ship of fame,<br /></span>
+<span>Saying, &quot;Farevell, Farevell to you, Lord Bateman,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I fear I ne-e-ever shall see you agen.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate6.jpg" width="400" height="499" alt="The Proud young Porter answers the door&mdash;" title="The Proud young Porter answers the door&mdash;" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>X.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Now sevin long years is gone and past,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And fourteen days vell known to me;<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a><br /></span>
+<span>She packed up all her gay clouthing,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And swore Lord Bateman she would go see.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>XI.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O ven she arrived at Lord Bateman's castle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">How bouldly then she rang the bell,<br /></span>
+<span>&quot;Who's there! who's there!&quot; cries the proud young porter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&quot;O come, unto me pray quickly tell.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate7.jpg" width="400" height="513" alt="The Proud young Porter in Lord Bateman&#39;s State Apartment" title="The Proud young Porter in Lord Bateman&#39;s State Apartment" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>XII.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O! is this here Lord Bateman's castle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And is his lordship here vithin?&quot;<br /></span>
+<span>&quot;O Yes! O yes!&quot; cries the proud young porter;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&quot;He's just now takin' his young bride in.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>XIII.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O! bid him to send me a slice of bread,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And a bottle of the wery best vine,<br /></span>
+<span>And not forgettin' the fair young lady<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As did release him ven close confine.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate8.jpg" width="400" height="512" alt="The young bride&#39;s Mother is heard (for the first time) to speak freely" title="The young bride&#39;s Mother is heard (for the first time) to speak freely" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>XIV.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>O! avay and avay vent this proud young porter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">O! avay and avay and avay vent he,<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a><br /></span>
+<span>Until he come to Lord Bateman's charmber,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Ven he vent down on his bended knee.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>XV.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;Vot news, vot news, my proud young porter,<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a><br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Vot news, vot news, come tell to me?&quot;<br /></span>
+<span>&quot;O there is the fairest young lady<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As ever my two eyes did see.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate9.jpg" width="400" height="512" alt="The young bride comes on a horse and saddle" title="The young bride comes on a horse and saddle" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>XVI.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;She has got rings on ev'ry finger,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And on one finger she has got three:<br /></span>
+<span>Vith as much gay gould about her middle<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As would buy half Northumberlee.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>XVII.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O she bids you to send her a slice of bread<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And a bottle of the wery best vine,<br /></span>
+<span>And not forgettin' the fair young lady<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As did release you ven close confine.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate10.jpg" width="400" height="506" alt="&mdash;And goes home in a coach and three&mdash;&mdash;" title="&mdash;And goes home in a coach and three&mdash;&mdash;" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>XVIII.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Lord Bateman then in passion flew,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And broke his sword in splinters three,<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a><br /></span>
+<span>Saying, &quot;I vill give half my father's land<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">If so be as Sophia<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> has crossed the sea.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>XIX.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Then up and spoke this young bride's mother,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Who never vos heerd to speak so free:<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a><br /></span>
+<span>Sayin, &quot;You'll not forget my ounly darter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">If so be as Sophia has crossed the sea.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/plate11.jpg" width="400" height="525" alt="Lord Bateman, his other bride, and his favorite domestic, with all their hearts so full of glee." title="Lord Bateman, his other bride, and his favorite domestic, with all their hearts so full of glee." />
+</div>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4"><b>XX.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>&quot;O it's true I made a bride of your darter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But she's neither the better nor the vorse for me;<br /></span>
+<span>She came to me with a horse and saddle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But she may go home in a coach and three.&quot;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+
+<span class="i4"><b>XXI.</b><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span>Lord Bateman then prepared another marriage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With both their hearts so full of glee,<br /></span>
+<span>Saying, &quot;I vill roam no more to foreign countries<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Now that Sophia has crossed the sea.&quot;<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+
+<h2><a name="NOTES" id="NOTES" />NOTES.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Some foreign country for to see.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+The reader is here in six words artfully made acquainted with Lord
+Bateman's character and temperament.&mdash;Of a roving, wandering, and unsettled
+spirit, his Lordship left his native country, bound he knew not whither.
+<i>Some</i> foreign country he wished to see, and that was the extent of his
+desire; any foreign country would answer his purpose&mdash;all foreign countries
+were alike to him. He was a citizen of the world, and upon the world of
+waters, sustained by the daring and reckless impulses of his heart, he
+boldly launched. For anything, from pitch-and-toss upwards to manslaughter,
+his Lordship was prepared. Lord Bateman's character at this time, and his
+expedition, would appear to Have borne a striking resemblance to those of
+Lord Byron.
+<br />
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>His goblets brimmed with every costly wine,<br /></span>
+<span>And all that mote to luxury invite.<br /></span>
+<span>Without a sigh he left to cross the brine,<br /></span>
+<span>And traverse Paynim shores, and pass earth's central line.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<div class="right"><div class="smcap">
+Childe Harold, Canto I.</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+<a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>This Turk he had, &amp;c.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+The poet has here, by that bold license which only genius can venture upon,
+surmounted the extreme difficulty of introducing any particular Turk, by
+assuming a fore-gone conclusion in the reader's mind, and adverting in a
+casual, careless way to a Turk unknown, as to an old acquaintance. &quot;<i>This</i>
+Turk he had&mdash;&quot; We have heard of no Turk before, and yet this familiar
+introduction satisfies us at once that we know him well. He was a pirate,
+no doubt, of a cruel and savage disposition, entertaining a hatred of the
+Christian race, and accustomed to garnish his trees and vines with such
+stray professors of Christianity as happened to fall into his hands. &quot;This
+Turk he had&mdash;&quot; is a master-stroke&mdash;a truly Shakspearian touch. There are
+few things like it in the language.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>And every holth she drunk unto him</i><br /></span>
+<span><i>Vos, &quot;I vish Lord Bateman as you vos mine!&quot;</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<br />A most affecting illustration of the sweetest simplicity, the purest
+artlessness, and holiest affections of woman's gentle nature. Bred up among
+the rough and savage crowds which thronged her father's lawless halls, and
+meeting with no responsive or kindred spirit among those fierce barbarians
+(many of whom, however, touched by her surpassing charms, though insensible
+to her virtues and mental endowments, had vainly sought her hand in
+marriage), this young creature had spent the greater part of her life in
+the solitude of her own apartments, or in contemplating the charms of
+nature arrayed in all the luxury of eastern voluptuousness. At length she
+hears from an aged and garrulous attendant, her only female adviser (for
+her mother died when she was yet an infant), of the sorrows and sufferings
+of the Christian captive. Urged by pity and womanly sympathy, she repairs
+to his prison to succour and console him. She supports his feeble and
+tottering steps to her father's cellar, recruits his exhausted frame with
+copious draughts of sparkling wine, and when his dim eye brightens, and his
+pale cheek becomes flushed with the glow of returning health and animation,
+she&mdash;unaccustomed to disguise or concealment, and being by nature all
+openness and truth&mdash;gives vent to the feelings which now thrill her maiden
+heart for the first time, in the rich gush of unspeakable love, tenderness,
+and devotion&mdash;
+<br />
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>I vish Lord Bateman as you vos mine!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a>
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Oh, in sevin long years I'll make a wow,</i><br /></span>
+<span><i>I'll make a wow, and I'll keep it strong</i>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<br />Love has converted the tender girl into a majestic heroine; she cannot only
+make &quot;a wow,&quot; but she can &quot;keep it strong;&quot; she feels all the dignity of
+truth and love swelling in her bosom. With the view of possessing herself
+of the real state of Lord Bateman's affections, and with no sordid or
+mercenary motives, she has enquired of that nobleman what are his means of
+subsistence, and whether <i>all</i> Northumberland belongs to him. His Lordship
+has rejoined, with a noble regard for truth, that <i>half</i> Northumberland is
+his, and that he will give it freely to the fair young lady who will
+release him from his dungeon. She, being thus assured of his regard and
+esteem, rejects all idea of pecuniary reward, and offers to be a party to a
+solemn wow&mdash;to be kept strong on both sides&mdash;that, if for seven years he
+will remain a bachelor, she, for the like period, will remain a maid. The
+contract is made, and the lovers are solemnly contracted.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Now sevin long years is gone and past,</i><br /></span>
+<span><i>And fourteen days vell known to me.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br/>
+In this may be recognised, though in a minor degree, the same gifted hand
+that portrayed the Mussulman, the pirate, the father, and the bigot, in two
+words. The time is gone, the historian knows it, and that is enough for the
+reader. This is the dignity of history very strikingly exemplified.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Avay and avay vent this proud young porter,</i><br /></span>
+<span><i>Avay and avay and avay vent he.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+Nothing perhaps could be more ingeniously contrived to express the vastness
+of Lord Bateman's family mansion than this remarkable passage. The proud
+young porter had to thread courts, corridors, galleries, and staircases
+innumerable, before he could penetrate to those exquisite apartments in
+which Lord Bateman was wont to solace his leisure hours, with the most
+refined pleasures of his time. We behold him hastening to the presence of
+his lord: the repetition of the word &quot;avay&quot; causes us to feel the speed
+with which he hastens&mdash;at length he arrives. Does he appear before the
+chief with indecent haste? Is he described as rushing madly into his
+presence to impart his message? No! a different atmosphere surrounds that
+remarkable man. Even this proud young porter is checked in his impetuous
+career which lasted only
+<br />
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Until</i> he came to Lord Bateman's chamber,<br /></span>
+<span>Vere he vent down on his bended knee.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+Lord Bateman's eye is upon him, and he quails.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Vot news! vot news! my proud young porter?</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+A pleasant condescension on the part of his lordship, showing that he
+recognised the stately youth, and no less stately pride of office which
+characterized his follower, and that he was acquainted with the
+distinguishing appellation which he appears to have borne in the family.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>And broke his sword in splinters three.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+Exemplifying, in a highly poetical and striking manner, the force of Lord
+Bateman's love, which he would seem to have kept strong as his &quot;wow.&quot; We
+have beheld him patient in confinement, descending to no base murmurings
+against fortune, even when chained by the middle to a tree, with the
+prospect of ending his days in that ignominious and unpleasant position. He
+has borne all this and a great deal more, seven years and a fortnight have
+elapsed, and, at last, on the mere mention of the fair young lady, he falls
+into a perfect phrenzy, and breaks his sword, the faithful partner and
+companion of his glory, into three splinters. Antiquarians differ
+respecting the intent and meaning of this ceremony, which has been
+construed and interpreted in many different ways. The strong probability is
+that it was done &quot;for luck;&quot; and yet Lord Bateman should have been superior
+to the prejudices of the vulgar.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>If my own Sophia.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+So called doubtless from the mosque of St. Sophia, at Constantinople; her
+father having professed the Mahomedan religion.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>Then up and spoke this young bride's mother,</i><br /></span>
+<span><i>Who never vos heerd to speak so free.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+This is an exquisite touch of nature, which most married men, whether of
+noble or plebeian blood, will quickly recognise. During the whole of her
+daughter's courtship, the good old lady had scarcely spoken, save by
+expressive smiles and looks of approval. But now that her object is gained,
+and her daughter fast married (as she thinks), she suddenly assumes quite a
+new tone, &quot;and never was heerd to speak so free.&quot; It would be difficult for
+poetry to comprehend any thing more strictly true and life-like than this.</div>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span><i>With both their hearts so full of glee.</i><br /></span>
+</div></div>
+<br />
+If any thing could add to the grace and beauty of the poem, it would be
+this most satisfactory and agreeable conclusion. At the time of the foreign
+lady's arrival on the shores of England, we find Lord Bateman in the
+disagreeable dilemma of having contracted another marriage; to which step
+his lordship has doubtless been impelled by despair of ever recovering his
+lost Sophia, and a natural anxiety not to die without leaving an heir to
+his estate. The ceremony has been performed, the Church has done its
+office, the bride and her mamma have taken possession of the castle, when
+the lost Sophia suddenly presents herself. An ordinary man would have been
+overwhelmed by such a complication of perplexities&mdash;not so Lord Bateman.
+Master of the human heart, he appeals to feminine ambition and love of
+display; and, reminding the young lady that she came to him on a saddle
+horse (with her revered parent following no doubt on foot behind), offers
+to bestow upon her a coach and three. The young lady closes with the
+proposition; her august mother, having brought it about by her freedom of
+speech, makes no objection; Lord Bateman, being a nobleman of great power,
+and having plenty of superfluous wealth to bestow upon the Church, orders
+another marriage, and boldly declares the first one to be a nullity.
+Thereupon &quot;another marriage&quot; is immediately prepared, and the piece closes
+with a picture of general happiness and hilarity.</div>
+
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+\version "2.4.2"
+melody = \relative c' {
+ \clef treble
+ \key c \major
+ \time 3/4
+
+ \partial 8*3
+ c8 e g
+ a4( g8) a f g
+ e4. c8 e g
+ a16[( b]) c8 d4. b8
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+ \partial 8*3
+ Lord8 Bateman4
+ vos4. a8 noble4
+ Lord.4. A8 no -- ble
+ Lord of high,4. de8 --
+ gree4. He8 shipp'd his __
+ self4 all8 a8 board of16 a
+ Ship4 \skip 8 Some8 foreign4
+ Coun4. __ tree8 for to
+ see4 \skip 8
+}
+
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+ <<
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+ \autoBeamOff
+ \melody \printedlastbar
+ }
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+ >>
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+}
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+ \context Voice = mel {
+ \melody \midilastbar
+ }
+ >>
+ \midi { \tempo 4=100 }
+}
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, by Charles
+Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, Illustrated by George Cruikshank
+
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+
+Title: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
+
+
+Author: Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray
+
+Release Date: April 14, 2005 [eBook #15618]
+
+Language: English
+
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+
+
+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD
+BATEMAN***
+
+
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+
+THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN.
+
+ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
+
+London
+Charles Tilt, Fleet Street
+and Mustapha Syried, Constantinople
+
+MDCCCXXXIX
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Warning to the Public
+
+CONCERNING
+
+THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN.
+
+
+In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which
+I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic
+Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he
+will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure
+all to whom these presents may come, that "_I_ am the original." This
+affecting legend is given in the following pages precisely as I have
+frequently heard it sung on Saturday nights, outside a house of general
+refreshment (familiarly termed a wine vaults) at Battle-bridge. The singer
+is a young gentleman who can scarcely have numbered nineteen summers,
+and who before his last visit to the treadmill, where he was erroneously
+incarcerated for six months as a vagrant (being unfortunately mistaken
+for another gentleman), had a very melodious and plaintive tone of voice,
+which, though it is now somewhat impaired by gruel and such a getting up
+stairs for so long a period, I hope shortly to find restored. I have taken
+down the words from his own mouth at different periods, and have been
+careful to preserve his pronunciation, together with the air to which he
+does so much justice. Of his execution of it, however, and the intense
+melancholy which he communicates to such passages of the song as are most
+susceptible of such an expression, I am unfortunately unable to convey to
+the reader an adequate idea, though I may hint that the effect seems to me
+to be in part produced by the long and mournful drawl on the last two or
+three words of each verse.
+
+I had intended to have dedicated my imperfect illustrations of this
+beautiful Romance to the young gentleman in question. As I cannot find,
+however, that he is known among his friends by any other name than
+"The Tripe-skewer," which I cannot but consider as a _soubriquet_, or
+nick-name; and as I feel that it would be neither respectful nor proper
+to address him publicly by that title, I have been compelled to forego the
+pleasure. If this should meet his eye, will he pardon my humble attempt to
+embellish with the pencil the sweet ideas to which he gives such feeling
+utterance? And will he believe me to remain his devoted admirer,
+
+ GEORGE CRUIKSHANK?
+
+P.S.--The above is not my writing, nor the notes either, nor am I on
+familiar terms (but quite the contrary) with the Black Bear. Nevertheless
+I admit the accuracy of the statement relative to the public singer whose
+name is unknown, and concur generally in the sentiments above expressed
+relative to him.
+
+[Illustration: (signature: George Cruikshank)]
+
+[Illustration: Musical Score]
+
+
+
+
+The Loving Ballad Of Lord Bateman.
+
+
+ I.
+
+ Lord Bateman vos a noble Lord,
+ A noble Lord of high degree;
+ He shipped his-self all aboard of a ship,
+ Some foreign country for to see.[1]
+
+For the notes to this beautiful Poem, see the end of the work.
+
+[Illustration: Lord Bateman as he appeared previous to his embarkation.]
+
+[Illustration: The Turk's only daughter approaches to mitigate the
+sufferings of Lord Bateman!--]
+
+ II.
+
+ He sail-ed east, he sail-ed vest,
+ Until he come to famed Tur-key,
+ Vere he vos taken, and put to prisin,
+ Until his life was quite wea-ry.
+
+
+ III.
+
+ All in this prisin there grew a tree,
+ O! there it grew so stout and strong,
+ Vere he vos chain-ed all by the middle
+ Until his life vos almost gone.
+
+[Illustration: The Turk's daughter expresses a wish as Lord Bateman was
+hers.]
+
+ IV.
+
+ This Turk[2] he had one ounly darter,
+ The fairest my two eyes e'er see,
+ She steele the keys of her father's prisin,
+ And swore Lord Bateman she would let go free.
+
+
+ V.
+
+ O she took him to her father's cellar,
+ And guv to him the best of vine;
+ And ev'ry holth she dronk unto him,
+ Vos, "I vish Lord Bateman as you vos mine!"[3]
+
+[Illustration: The "WOW."]
+
+ VI.
+
+ "O have you got houses, have you got land,
+ And does Northumberland belong to thee?
+ And what would you give to the fair young lady
+ As out of prisin would let you go free?"
+
+
+ VII.
+
+ "O I've got houses, and I've got land,
+ And half Northumberland belongs to me;
+ And I vill give it all to the fair young lady
+ As out of prisin vould let me go free."
+
+[Illustration: The Turk's daughter, bidding his Lordship farewell, is
+impressed with a foreboding that she will see him no more!--]
+
+ VIII.
+
+ "O in sevin long years, I'll make a wow
+ For sevin long years, and keep it strong,[4]
+ That if you'll ved no other voman,
+ O I vill v-e-ed no other man."
+
+
+ IX.
+
+ O She took him to her father's harbour,
+ And guv to him a ship of fame,
+ Saying, "Farevell, Farevell to you, Lord Bateman,
+ I fear I ne-e-ever shall see you agen."
+
+[Illustration: The Proud young Porter answers the door--]
+
+ X.
+
+ Now sevin long years is gone and past,
+ And fourteen days vell known to me;[5]
+ She packed up all her gay clouthing,
+ And swore Lord Bateman she would go see.
+
+
+ XI.
+
+ O ven she arrived at Lord Bateman's castle,
+ How bouldly then she rang the bell,
+ "Who's there! who's there!" cries the proud young porter,
+ "O come, unto me pray quickly tell."
+
+[Illustration: The Proud young Porter in Lord Bateman's State Apartment]
+
+ XII.
+
+ "O! is this here Lord Bateman's castle,
+ And is his lordship here vithin?"
+ "O Yes! O yes!" cries the proud young porter;
+ "He's just now takin' his young bride in."
+
+
+ XIII.
+
+ "O! bid him to send me a slice of bread,
+ And a bottle of the wery best vine,
+ And not forgettin' the fair young lady
+ As did release him ven close confine."
+
+[Illustration: The young bride's Mother is heard (for the first time) to
+speak freely]
+
+ XIV.
+
+ O! avay and avay vent this proud young porter,
+ O! avay and avay and avay vent he,[6]
+ Until he come to Lord Bateman's charmber,
+ Ven he vent down on his bended knee.
+
+
+ XV.
+
+ "Vot news, vot news, my proud young porter,[7]
+ Vot news, vot news, come tell to me?"
+ "O there is the fairest young lady
+ As ever my two eyes did see.
+
+[Illustration: The young bride comes on a horse and saddle]
+
+ XVI.
+
+ "She has got rings on ev'ry finger,
+ And on one finger she has got three:
+ Vith as much gay gould about her middle
+ As would buy half Northumberlee.
+
+
+ XVII.
+
+ "O she bids you to send her a slice of bread
+ And a bottle of the wery best vine,
+ And not forgettin' the fair young lady
+ As did release you ven close confine."
+
+[Illustration:--And goes home in a coach and three----]
+
+ XVIII.
+
+ Lord Bateman then in passion flew,
+ And broke his sword in splinters three,[8]
+ Saying, "I vill give half my father's land
+ If so be as Sophia[9] has crossed the sea."
+
+
+ XIX.
+
+ Then up and spoke this young bride's mother,
+ Who never vos heerd to speak so free:[10]
+ Sayin, "You'll not forget my ounly darter,
+ If so be as Sophia has crossed the sea."
+
+[Illustration: Lord Bateman, his other bride, and his favorite domestic,
+with all their hearts so full of glee.]
+
+ XX.
+
+ "O it's true I made a bride of your darter,
+ But she's neither the better nor the vorse for me;
+ She came to me with a horse and saddle,
+ But she may go home in a coach and three."
+
+
+ XXI.
+
+ Lord Bateman then prepared another marriage,
+ With both their hearts so full of glee,
+ Saying, "I vill roam no more to foreign countries
+ Now that Sophia has crossed the sea."[11]
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTES.
+
+
+[Footnote 1:
+
+ _Some foreign country for to see._
+
+The reader is here in six words artfully made acquainted with Lord
+Bateman's character and temperament.--Of a roving, wandering, and unsettled
+spirit, his Lordship left his native country, bound he knew not whither.
+_Some_ foreign country he wished to see, and that was the extent of his
+desire; any foreign country would answer his purpose--all foreign countries
+were alike to him. He was a citizen of the world, and upon the world of
+waters, sustained by the daring and reckless impulses of his heart, he
+boldly launched. For anything, from pitch-and-toss upwards to manslaughter,
+his Lordship was prepared. Lord Bateman's character at this time, and his
+expedition, would appear to Have borne a striking resemblance to those of
+Lord Byron.
+
+ His goblets brimmed with every costly wine,
+ And all that mote to luxury invite.
+ Without a sigh he left to cross the brine,
+ And traverse Paynim shores, and pass earth's central line.
+
+CHILDE HAROLD, CANTO I.]
+
+[Footnote 2:
+
+ _This Turk he had, &c._
+
+The poet has here, by that bold license which only genius can venture upon,
+surmounted the extreme difficulty of introducing any particular Turk, by
+assuming a fore-gone conclusion in the reader's mind, and adverting in a
+casual, careless way to a Turk unknown, as to an old acquaintance. "_This_
+Turk he had--" We have heard of no Turk before, and yet this familiar
+introduction satisfies us at once that we know him well. He was a pirate,
+no doubt, of a cruel and savage disposition, entertaining a hatred of the
+Christian race, and accustomed to garnish his trees and vines with such
+stray professors of Christianity as happened to fall into his hands. "This
+Turk he had--" is a master-stroke--a truly Shakspearian touch. There are
+few things like it in the language.]
+
+[Footnote 3:
+
+ _And every holth she drunk unto him
+ Vos, "I vish Lord Bateman as you vos mine!"_
+
+A most affecting illustration of the sweetest simplicity, the purest
+artlessness, and holiest affections of woman's gentle nature. Bred up among
+the rough and savage crowds which thronged her father's lawless halls, and
+meeting with no responsive or kindred spirit among those fierce barbarians
+(many of whom, however, touched by her surpassing charms, though insensible
+to her virtues and mental endowments, had vainly sought her hand in
+marriage), this young creature had spent the greater part of her life in
+the solitude of her own apartments, or in contemplating the charms of
+nature arrayed in all the luxury of eastern voluptuousness. At length she
+hears from an aged and garrulous attendant, her only female adviser (for
+her mother died when she was yet an infant), of the sorrows and sufferings
+of the Christian captive. Urged by pity and womanly sympathy, she repairs
+to his prison to succour and console him. She supports his feeble and
+tottering steps to her father's cellar, recruits his exhausted frame with
+copious draughts of sparkling wine, and when his dim eye brightens, and his
+pale cheek becomes flushed with the glow of returning health and animation,
+she--unaccustomed to disguise or concealment, and being by nature all
+openness and truth--gives vent to the feelings which now thrill her maiden
+heart for the first time, in the rich gush of unspeakable love, tenderness,
+and devotion--
+
+ I vish Lord Bateman as you vos mine!]
+
+[Footnote 4:
+
+ _Oh, in sevin long years I'll make a wow,
+ I'll make a wow, and I'll keep it strong_.
+
+Love has converted the tender girl into a majestic heroine; she cannot only
+make "a wow," but she can "keep it strong;" she feels all the dignity of
+truth and love swelling in her bosom. With the view of possessing herself
+of the real state of Lord Bateman's affections, and with no sordid or
+mercenary motives, she has enquired of that nobleman what are his means of
+subsistence, and whether _all_ Northumberland belongs to him. His Lordship
+has rejoined, with a noble regard for truth, that _half_ Northumberland is
+his, and that he will give it freely to the fair young lady who will
+release him from his dungeon. She, being thus assured of his regard and
+esteem, rejects all idea of pecuniary reward, and offers to be a party to a
+solemn wow--to be kept strong on both sides--that, if for seven years he
+will remain a bachelor, she, for the like period, will remain a maid. The
+contract is made, and the lovers are solemnly contracted.]
+
+[Footnote 5:
+
+ _Now sevin long years is gone and past,
+ And fourteen days vell known to me._
+
+In this may be recognised, though in a minor degree, the same gifted hand
+that portrayed the Mussulman, the pirate, the father, and the bigot, in two
+words. The time is gone, the historian knows it, and that is enough for the
+reader. This is the dignity of history very strikingly exemplified.]
+
+[Footnote 6:
+
+ _Avay and avay vent this proud young porter,
+ Avay and avay and avay vent he._
+
+Nothing perhaps could be more ingeniously contrived to express the vastness
+of Lord Bateman's family mansion than this remarkable passage. The proud
+young porter had to thread courts, corridors, galleries, and staircases
+innumerable, before he could penetrate to those exquisite apartments in
+which Lord Bateman was wont to solace his leisure hours, with the most
+refined pleasures of his time. We behold him hastening to the presence of
+his lord: the repetition of the word "avay" causes us to feel the speed
+with which he hastens--at length he arrives. Does he appear before the
+chief with indecent haste? Is he described as rushing madly into his
+presence to impart his message? No! a different atmosphere surrounds that
+remarkable man. Even this proud young porter is checked in his impetuous
+career which lasted only
+
+ _Until_ he came to Lord Bateman's chamber,
+ Vere he vent down on his bended knee.
+
+Lord Bateman's eye is upon him, and he quails.]
+
+[Footnote 7:
+
+ _Vot news! vot news! my proud young porter?_
+
+A pleasant condescension on the part of his lordship, showing that he
+recognised the stately youth, and no less stately pride of office which
+characterized his follower, and that he was acquainted with the
+distinguishing appellation which he appears to have borne in the family.]
+
+[Footnote 8:
+
+ _And broke his sword in splinters three._
+
+Exemplifying, in a highly poetical and striking manner, the force of Lord
+Bateman's love, which he would seem to have kept strong as his "wow." We
+have beheld him patient in confinement, descending to no base murmurings
+against fortune, even when chained by the middle to a tree, with the
+prospect of ending his days in that ignominious and unpleasant position. He
+has borne all this and a great deal more, seven years and a fortnight have
+elapsed, and, at last, on the mere mention of the fair young lady, he falls
+into a perfect phrenzy, and breaks his sword, the faithful partner and
+companion of his glory, into three splinters. Antiquarians differ
+respecting the intent and meaning of this ceremony, which has been
+construed and interpreted in many different ways. The strong probability is
+that it was done "for luck;" and yet Lord Bateman should have been superior
+to the prejudices of the vulgar.]
+
+[Footnote 9:
+
+ _If my own Sophia._
+
+So called doubtless from the mosque of St. Sophia, at Constantinople; her
+father having professed the Mahomedan religion.]
+
+[Footnote 10:
+
+ _Then up and spoke this young bride's mother,
+ Who never vos heerd to speak so free._
+
+This is an exquisite touch of nature, which most married men, whether of
+noble or plebeian blood, will quickly recognise. During the whole of her
+daughter's courtship, the good old lady had scarcely spoken, save by
+expressive smiles and looks of approval. But now that her object is gained,
+and her daughter fast married (as she thinks), she suddenly assumes quite a
+new tone, "and never was heerd to speak so free." It would be difficult for
+poetry to comprehend any thing more strictly true and life-like than this.]
+
+[Footnote 11:
+
+ _With both their hearts so full of glee._
+
+If any thing could add to the grace and beauty of the poem, it would be
+this most satisfactory and agreeable conclusion. At the time of the foreign
+lady's arrival on the shores of England, we find Lord Bateman in the
+disagreeable dilemma of having contracted another marriage; to which step
+his lordship has doubtless been impelled by despair of ever recovering his
+lost Sophia, and a natural anxiety not to die without leaving an heir to
+his estate. The ceremony has been performed, the Church has done its
+office, the bride and her mamma have taken possession of the castle, when
+the lost Sophia suddenly presents herself. An ordinary man would have been
+overwhelmed by such a complication of perplexities--not so Lord Bateman.
+Master of the human heart, he appeals to feminine ambition and love of
+display; and, reminding the young lady that she came to him on a saddle
+horse (with her revered parent following no doubt on foot behind), offers
+to bestow upon her a coach and three. The young lady closes with the
+proposition; her august mother, having brought it about by her freedom of
+speech, makes no objection; Lord Bateman, being a nobleman of great power,
+and having plenty of superfluous wealth to bestow upon the Church, orders
+another marriage, and boldly declares the first one to be a nullity.
+Thereupon "another marriage" is immediately prepared, and the piece closes
+with a picture of general happiness and hilarity.]
+
+
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