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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/26787-0.txt b/26787-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e26c4c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/26787-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,921 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Alf the Freebooter, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, +Translated by George Borrow + + +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 www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Alf the Freebooter + Little Danneved and Swayne Trost and other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26787] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALF THE FREEBOOTER*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + ALF THE FREEBOOTER + LITTLE DANNEVED AND + SWAYNE TROST + + AND OTHER BALLADS + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + _Copyright in the United States of America_ + _by Houghton_, _Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_. + + + + +SIR ALF THE FREEBOOTER +_Song the First_ + + +Sir Alf he is an Atheling, +Both at Stevn and at Ting. {5} + _Know ye little Alf_? + +Alf he builds a vessel stout, +For he will rove and sail about. + +Alf he builds a vessel high, +The trade of pirate he will try. + +He draws on the sand a circle mark, +And with a bound he gained the bark. + +Upon the prow Alf foremost stood, +And Copenhagen’s koggers view’d. + +O’er the wide sea he flung a look, +He knew the course the vessels took. + +“There koggers nine salute mine eyes, +All, all they bear shall be my prize.” + +Alone into a boat he goes, +And briskly to the koggers rows. + +“Well met, ye Courtmen, clad in mail +Unto what haven do ye sail?” + +“Unto that haven we are bound, +Where Alf is likeliest to be found.” + +“What will ye on the man bestow +Who unto ye Sir Alf can show?” + +“Silver and gold to him we’ll give, +All he can wish for shall he receive. + +Presents of worth he shall not miss, +The robber’s vessel shall be his.” + +“And what shall be the pirates’ lot, +If Alf the pirate escape you not?” + +“His mariners we’ll hew and slay, +Himself we will in irons lay.” + +“Ha! little Alf ye here may see, +Slight victory ye shall win from me!” + +“Up, up and board, my gallant crew, +Cable and rope asunder hew!” + +Till he was weary Alf he hew’d, +In fifteen Courtmen’s gore he stood. + +He captured all the koggers nine, +And sailed for Norway o’er the brine. + +To Rostock in the tiding goes, +Then palened many a cheek of rose. + +Widow and child lamented sore, +This hurtful hawk had made them poor. + +But they must thole this damage all, +Their tears but bootless, bootless fall. + _Know ye little Alf_? + + + + +SIR ALF THE FREEBOOTER +_Song the Second_ + + +Sir Alf will not stay in Norroway land, + For he passes his time there wearily; +Full fifteen lordships in fief he holds, + He can live thereout right merrily. + +Sir Alf he walks on the verdant wold, + Conning his breviary; +There meets him Bendit Rimaardson, + For God of his sins was weary. + +“Good morrow, good day, thou little Sir Alf, + Thou art a valiant noble, +But if thou become the King’s prisoner to-day, + The land will know less trouble.” + +“I am not the little Sir Alf, + I vow by the holy Mary; +I am but a little mass-boy, Sir, + To the priest the wine I carry!” + +Bendit lifted his high, high hat, + And upon his visage staring, +Said: “Thou art the little Norwegian Alf, + If mine eyes are the truth declaring. + +“Thou wast a school boy along with me, + Thou darest not deny it; +And well at the school I remember thee, + Thou gavest us no quiet.” + +“If thou be Bendit Rimaardson, + Thou art my near relation; +If to-day thou wilt swear thou knowest me not, + Thou wilt do me an obligation.” + +But straight they took the little Sir Alf, + And gyves to his legs they fastened; +And away, away to Helsingborg, + With the captive Alf they hastened. + +“Now take little Alf to the chamber high, + To the hall of the regal tower, +That the Queen at her ease, and her maids, if they please. + May behold this thief of power.” + +Then up and spake the Danish Queen, + On first little Alf espying: +“The man that I see cannot surely be he, + Whose fame through the world is flying.” + +“Though I of stature be little and mean, + I’ve every manly talent, +And ne’er wilt thou bear thy lord an heir, + Half, half so good and gallant. + +“I’d give my mantle with roses red, + And lilies flowered over, +If I might sleep one night with thee, + And play the ardent lover. + +“If I one night with thee might sleep, + None knowing but thy maid servant, +For then, I ween, thou would’st beg, fair Queen, + For my pardon in accents fervent.” + +Then answered him the Danish Queen, + As she struck the board with vigour: +“To-morrow, ere folk to breakfast go, + On a gibbet thou shalt figure!” + +“Why hang’st thou not Ivor of Holsterbro, + And Canute of Sonderboro? +They were thieves like me, but they slept with thee, + And their death would have caused thee sorrow.” + +Then they took away the little Sir Alf + From the hall of the regal tower; +For the beauteous Queen and her ladies had seen + Enough of this thief of power. + +They led the little Count Sir Alf + Out East from Helsing city; +With contrite breast he his sins confess’d, + And to God he cried for pity. + +“Now I counsel each noble woman’s son, + He in honour’s courses guide him, +With his equals dwell in the land, for well + With all will that land provide him. + +“For many a day and many a year + I’ve plundered, as every one knoweth; +But what we win with injustice and sin + With shame and sorrow goeth. + +“A Count was I, of Erling’s race, + O’er Timsberg’s rich fief I lorded; +That filled me with pride, and my will I would have, + Though my will with no law accorded. + +“First, first on all who my hate had won + I murders foul committed; +Then to wife and maid no respect I paid, + But shamefully them I treated. + +“From the needy citizen his goods + And his life besides I’ve riven; +Widow and orphans my deeds bemoan, + And for vengeance cry to heaven. + +“Lord God to me kind and clement be, + And grant me this petition: +Let me gain, when this death of shame I’ve thol’d, + Into endless life admission.” + + + + +LITTLE DANNEVED AND SWAYNE TROST. + + +“O what shall I in Denmark do? + To bear your armour I’m too weak; +The Danish warriors jeer at me, + Because their tongue I cannot speak.” + +It was the young Danneved, + He bade them saddle his courser grey: +“O I will ride to Borrebye, + And a visit to my mother pay.” + +O clinking were his spurs so keen, + And swiftly sped his horse along; +At Lundy Kirk in Skaaney land + He stopped to hear the matin song. + +O first he heard the matin song, + To hear nine masses stopped he then; +And now it lists young Danneved + To mount upon his steed again. + +Out spake Oluf, the aged and good, + He was I ween the parish priest: +“I beg of thee, little Danneved, + To be this day my honoured guest.” + +“This day I’ll break with no man bread, + Nor drink a drop of rosy wine, +Until I come to Borrebye, + And hold discourse with mother mine.” + +“Now hear me, dearest Danneved, + Give o’er, I beg, thy purpose straight; +So many of thy enemies + Before the town in ambush wait.” + +“O first I trust in my faulchion good, + And then I trust in my courser tall, +And next to them in my merry swains, + But in my own self most of all.” + +“’Tis well to trust in thy faulchion good, + ’Tis well to trust in thy courser tall, +But do not trust in thy merry swains, + For they’ll deceive thee first of all.” + +It was little Danneved, + Abroad before the town he came; +And there met him his enemies, + Thrice nine in number were the same. + +So numerous were these enemies, + For him that did in ambush lie, +All Danneved’s swains they took their leave, + And from their lord did basely fly. + +All his merry men took their leave, + And from their master basely flew, +Except the young Swayne Trost alone, + He with his lord took on anew. + +“O I, my Lord, your clothes have worn, + And ridden have I, my Lord, your steed, +And I will stand by you to-day, + Nor leave you in your greatest need. + +“O I have taken your silver and gold, + And I have eaten of your bread, +And I’ll not budge from you to-day, + Although my life-blood I should shed.” + +So they their backs together placed, + Master and man, in the forest green; +And in the early morning tide + They of the foemen slew fifteen. + +Then they their backs together placed, + Where thick and high the bushes were; +They twain alone full thirty slew, + Acquiring honour ever fair. + +It was the young Danneved, + To his side his trusty faulchion tied; +And now they both so joyously + Home to his mother’s castle ride. + +It was the young Danneved, + Came riding to the Castellaye; +It was then his mother dear + Came out to meet him, blythe and gay. + +“Be welcome, little Danneved, + Be welcome to this house of mine; +What doth it please thee now to drink? + O, say, shall it be mead or wine?” + +“O, I will ne’er break bread with you, + Or drink a drop of mead or wine, +’Till thou hast given the young Swayne Trost + Fair Ellen, only sister mine.” + +“And do thou hear, my dearest son, + Hear what I now declare to thee; +As God shall help me in my need, + Brothers of Ellen both ye be.” + +“Now do thou hear, my mother dear, + Thou’st not to me the truth declar’d; +Where didst thou bear the young Swayne Trost, + That of his birth I never heard?” + +“O he was but a little child, + When him from out the land I sent; +And, hearing it said that he was dead, + To none I did my loss lament.” + +Then up spoke little Danneved, + He was the son of a knight so high: +“Now I have such a brother found, + I never more will grieve or sigh. + +“God’s blessing upon thee, young Swayne Trost, + To thee my troth I now will give; +I’ll ne’er deceive thee, young Swayne Trost, + As long as I on earth shall live.” + +Little Danneved and young Swayne Trost, + In sables and mard themselves array; +And both of them took so joyously + To the imperial Court their way. + + + + +SIR PALL, SIR BEAR, AND SIR LIDEN. + + +Liden he rode to the Ting, and shewed + His bloody gashes there: +“And these were done by no other one + But my dear brother Bear.” + +With humble air upstood Sir Bear, + And for leave to speak he cried: +“I’ll give thee gold and silver to hold, + And my good broad lands beside.” + +“Keep thou thyself thy silver pelf, + And thy good broad lands for me; +By God I swear this little hand fair + Thy death, brother Bear, shall be.” + +Home to their hall ride Bear and Pall. + With unsuspicious mind; +In wrathful mood, with five swains good, + Followed Liden close behind. + +Sir Pall, and Sir Bear, and Sir Liden, three were, + And they met the boughs beneath: +’Twas sad to view how quick out-flew + Their faulchions from the sheath. + +First Pall he slew his brother true, + Then Bear to death he smote; +I tell to ye for verity + His own death wound he got. + +They took up with care Sir Pall and Sir Bear, + To the city them they bore; +Beneath the skies in the greenwood lies + Sir Liden amid his gore. + +To the earn and the owl and the beasts that prowl + Sir Liden’s corpse they left; +When that was said to his plighted maid + She died of sense bereft. + +Had he paid heed to his mother’s rede, + And himself to the law address’d, +His brothers twain had remained unslain, + And their feud had been laid at rest. + +In piteous mode wept Mettelil proud, + The death of her three sons bold: +“Woe’s me,” cried she, “That e’er my eyes + Should this sad hour behold.” + +For Pall she wept sore, and still, still more + For Bear the good and brave; +But most of all for Sir Liden’s fall, + For he had no hallowed grave. + + + + +BELARDO’S WEDDING + + +From the banks, in morning’s beam, +Of Xarama, famous stream; +From the spot, or nigh it, where +It joins the Tagus broad and fair, +Sped Belardo, blithe and gay, +To receive the righteous pay +Of all the years of love he’d spent +In doubts, and fears, and discontent— + + _But happy the shepherd who finally gains_ + _The beautiful prize of his manifold pains_. + +Unto her village now he goes +The handsome Philis to espouse; +For now her father, kind and bland, +But late so stern, yields him her hand. +Now in his eyes the shepherd shows +The rapture in his breast that glows, +That after storm and hurricane +The heaven should look bright again. + + _How happy the shepherd who finally gains_ + _The beautiful prize of his manifold pains_. + +Not as of yore on foot, I trow, +Or in albarcas goes he now; +Albarcas made of slain wolf hide, +In blood of cow or heifer dyed. +O snow-white pointed shoes wore he, +Green stockings gartered at the knee; +Button composed of burning glass, +Presented, mind ye, by his lass. + + _How happy the shepherd who finally gains_ + _The beautiful prize of his manifold pains_. + +What a knight of gallant air +Rides he forth on sorrel mare; +Saddle of Friezeland leather made, +Fringe of the most dainty thread. +Sombrero new, of neatest shape, +Mantle long with lengthy cape, +Sayo green, obscure to see, +Graced with much embroidery. + + _How happy the shepherd who finally gains_ + _The beautiful prize of his labour and pains_. + +By the guise in which he’s drest, +His hopes are visibly exprest; +Hopes which so often damped and chilled +Are on the point to be fulfilled. +Within his bosom he doth bear +All the billets of his dear; +They are so many bills which he +Is bent to settle speedily. + + _Happy the shepherd who finally gains_ + _The beautiful prize of his manifold pains_. + +Arriving at the house he saw, +Waiting for him, his father-in-law, +Who, good-bye to scoffs and slights, +Holds his stirrup whilst he lights. +Lovely Philis at the door +Calls him “husband” and “senor;” +He “senora” and “dear wife” +Calleth her, they’re one for life. + + _Happy the shepherd who finally gains_ + _The beautiful prize of his manifold pains_. + + + + +THE YEW TREE + + +O tree of yew, which here I spy, +By Forida’s famed monastery; +Beneath thee lies, by cold death bound, +The tongue for sweetness once renown’d. + +Thou noble tree who shelterest kind, +The grave from winter’s snow and wind, +May lightning never lay thee low, +Nor archer cut from thee his bow; +Nor Crispin peel thee, pegs to frame, +But may thou ever bloom the same; +A noble tree the grave to guard +Of Cambria’s most illustrious bard! + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_. + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{5} _Stevn_ and _Ting_. Both words signify a tribunal before which +litigations were decided. + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALF THE FREEBOOTER*** + + +******* This file should be named 26787-0.txt or 26787-0.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/8/26787 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. 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Wise</a> +</h2> +<pre> +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Alf the Freebooter, Edited by Thomas J. Wise, +Translated by George Borrow + + +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 www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Alf the Freebooter + Little Danneved and Swayne Trost and other Ballads + + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26787] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALF THE FREEBOOTER*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>ALF THE FREEBOOTER</h1> +<p style="text-align: center">LITTLE DANNEVED AND<br /> +SWAYNE TROST</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">and other +ballads</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">1913</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin & Co. for Clement +Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>SIR ALF THE FREEBOOTER<br /> +<i>Song the First</i></h2> +<p>Sir Alf he is an Atheling,<br /> +Both at Stevn and at Ting. <a name="citation5"></a><a +href="#footnote5" class="citation">[5]</a><br /> + <i>Know ye little Alf</i>?</p> +<p>Alf he builds a vessel stout,<br /> +For he will rove and sail about.</p> +<p>Alf he builds a vessel high,<br /> +The trade of pirate he will try.</p> +<p>He draws on the sand a circle mark,<br /> +And with a bound he gained the bark.</p> +<p>Upon the prow Alf foremost stood,<br /> +And Copenhagen’s koggers view’d.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>O’er the wide sea he flung a look,<br /> +He knew the course the vessels took.</p> +<p>“There koggers nine salute mine eyes,<br /> +All, all they bear shall be my prize.”</p> +<p>Alone into a boat he goes,<br /> +And briskly to the koggers rows.</p> +<p>“Well met, ye Courtmen, clad in mail<br /> +Unto what haven do ye sail?”</p> +<p>“Unto that haven we are bound,<br /> +Where Alf is likeliest to be found.”</p> +<p>“What will ye on the man bestow<br /> +Who unto ye Sir Alf can show?”</p> +<p>“Silver and gold to him we’ll give,<br /> +All he can wish for shall he receive.</p> +<p>Presents of worth he shall not miss,<br /> +The robber’s vessel shall be his.”</p> +<p>“And what shall be the pirates’ lot,<br /> +If Alf the pirate escape you not?”</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“His mariners we’ll hew and slay,<br /> +Himself we will in irons lay.”</p> +<p>“Ha! little Alf ye here may see,<br /> +Slight victory ye shall win from me!”</p> +<p>“Up, up and board, my gallant crew,<br /> +Cable and rope asunder hew!”</p> +<p>Till he was weary Alf he hew’d,<br /> +In fifteen Courtmen’s gore he stood.</p> +<p>He captured all the koggers nine,<br /> +And sailed for Norway o’er the brine.</p> +<p>To Rostock in the tiding goes,<br /> +Then palened many a cheek of rose.</p> +<p>Widow and child lamented sore,<br /> +This hurtful hawk had made them poor.</p> +<p>But they must thole this damage all,<br /> +Their tears but bootless, bootless fall.<br /> + <i>Know ye little Alf</i>?</p> +<h2><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>SIR ALF THE FREEBOOTER<br /> +<i>Song the Second</i></h2> +<p>Sir Alf will not stay in Norroway land,<br /> + For he passes his time there wearily;<br /> +Full fifteen lordships in fief he holds,<br /> + He can live thereout right merrily.</p> +<p>Sir Alf he walks on the verdant wold,<br /> + Conning his breviary;<br /> +There meets him Bendit Rimaardson,<br /> + For God of his sins was weary.</p> +<p>“Good morrow, good day, thou little Sir Alf,<br /> + Thou art a valiant noble,<br /> +But if thou become the King’s prisoner to-day,<br /> + The land will know less trouble.”</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>“I am not the little Sir Alf,<br /> + I vow by the holy Mary;<br /> +I am but a little mass-boy, Sir,<br /> + To the priest the wine I carry!”</p> +<p>Bendit lifted his high, high hat,<br /> + And upon his visage staring,<br /> +Said: “Thou art the little Norwegian Alf,<br /> + If mine eyes are the truth declaring.</p> +<p>“Thou wast a school boy along with me,<br /> + Thou darest not deny it;<br /> +And well at the school I remember thee,<br /> + Thou gavest us no quiet.”</p> +<p>“If thou be Bendit Rimaardson,<br /> + Thou art my near relation;<br /> +If to-day thou wilt swear thou knowest me not,<br /> + Thou wilt do me an obligation.”</p> +<p>But straight they took the little Sir Alf,<br /> + And gyves to his legs they fastened;<br /> +And away, away to Helsingborg,<br /> + With the captive Alf they hastened.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>“Now take little Alf to the chamber high,<br /> + To the hall of the regal tower,<br /> +That the Queen at her ease, and her maids, if they please.<br /> + May behold this thief of power.”</p> +<p>Then up and spake the Danish Queen,<br /> + On first little Alf espying:<br /> +“The man that I see cannot surely be he,<br /> + Whose fame through the world is flying.”</p> +<p>“Though I of stature be little and mean,<br /> + I’ve every manly talent,<br /> +And ne’er wilt thou bear thy lord an heir,<br /> + Half, half so good and gallant.</p> +<p>“I’d give my mantle with roses red,<br /> + And lilies flowered over,<br /> +If I might sleep one night with thee,<br /> + And play the ardent lover.</p> +<p>“If I one night with thee might sleep,<br /> + None knowing but thy maid servant,<br /> +For then, I ween, thou would’st beg, fair Queen,<br /> + For my pardon in accents fervent.”</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>Then answered him the Danish Queen,<br /> + As she struck the board with vigour:<br /> +“To-morrow, ere folk to breakfast go,<br /> + On a gibbet thou shalt figure!”</p> +<p>“Why hang’st thou not Ivor of Holsterbro,<br /> + And Canute of Sonderboro?<br /> +They were thieves like me, but they slept with thee,<br /> + And their death would have caused thee +sorrow.”</p> +<p>Then they took away the little Sir Alf<br /> + From the hall of the regal tower;<br /> +For the beauteous Queen and her ladies had seen<br /> + Enough of this thief of power.</p> +<p>They led the little Count Sir Alf<br /> + Out East from Helsing city;<br /> +With contrite breast he his sins confess’d,<br /> + And to God he cried for pity.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“Now I counsel each noble woman’s son,<br /> + He in honour’s courses guide him,<br /> +With his equals dwell in the land, for well<br /> + With all will that land provide him.</p> +<p>“For many a day and many a year<br /> + I’ve plundered, as every one knoweth;<br /> +But what we win with injustice and sin<br /> + With shame and sorrow goeth.</p> +<p>“A Count was I, of Erling’s race,<br /> + O’er Timsberg’s rich fief I lorded;<br +/> +That filled me with pride, and my will I would have,<br /> + Though my will with no law accorded.</p> +<p>“First, first on all who my hate had won<br /> + I murders foul committed;<br /> +Then to wife and maid no respect I paid,<br /> + But shamefully them I treated.</p> +<p>“From the needy citizen his goods<br /> + And his life besides I’ve riven;<br /> +Widow and orphans my deeds bemoan,<br /> + And for vengeance cry to heaven.</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>“Lord God to me kind and clement be,<br /> + And grant me this petition:<br /> +Let me gain, when this death of shame I’ve thol’d,<br +/> + Into endless life admission.”</p> +<h2><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>LITTLE DANNEVED AND SWAYNE TROST.</h2> +<p>“O what shall I in Denmark do?<br /> + To bear your armour I’m too weak;<br /> +The Danish warriors jeer at me,<br /> + Because their tongue I cannot speak.”</p> +<p>It was the young Danneved,<br /> + He bade them saddle his courser grey:<br /> +“O I will ride to Borrebye,<br /> + And a visit to my mother pay.”</p> +<p>O clinking were his spurs so keen,<br /> + And swiftly sped his horse along;<br /> +At Lundy Kirk in Skaaney land<br /> + He stopped to hear the matin song.</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>O first he heard the matin song,<br /> + To hear nine masses stopped he then;<br /> +And now it lists young Danneved<br /> + To mount upon his steed again.</p> +<p>Out spake Oluf, the aged and good,<br /> + He was I ween the parish priest:<br /> +“I beg of thee, little Danneved,<br /> + To be this day my honoured guest.”</p> +<p>“This day I’ll break with no man bread,<br /> + Nor drink a drop of rosy wine,<br /> +Until I come to Borrebye,<br /> + And hold discourse with mother mine.”</p> +<p>“Now hear me, dearest Danneved,<br /> + Give o’er, I beg, thy purpose straight;<br /> +So many of thy enemies<br /> + Before the town in ambush wait.”</p> +<p>“O first I trust in my faulchion good,<br /> + And then I trust in my courser tall,<br /> +And next to them in my merry swains,<br /> + But in my own self most of all.”</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>“’Tis well to trust in thy faulchion +good,<br /> + ’Tis well to trust in thy courser tall,<br /> +But do not trust in thy merry swains,<br /> + For they’ll deceive thee first of +all.”</p> +<p>It was little Danneved,<br /> + Abroad before the town he came;<br /> +And there met him his enemies,<br /> + Thrice nine in number were the same.</p> +<p>So numerous were these enemies,<br /> + For him that did in ambush lie,<br /> +All Danneved’s swains they took their leave,<br /> + And from their lord did basely fly.</p> +<p>All his merry men took their leave,<br /> + And from their master basely flew,<br /> +Except the young Swayne Trost alone,<br /> + He with his lord took on anew.</p> +<p>“O I, my Lord, your clothes have worn,<br /> + And ridden have I, my Lord, your steed,<br /> +And I will stand by you to-day,<br /> + Nor leave you in your greatest need.</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>“O I have taken your silver and gold,<br /> + And I have eaten of your bread,<br /> +And I’ll not budge from you to-day,<br /> + Although my life-blood I should shed.”</p> +<p>So they their backs together placed,<br /> + Master and man, in the forest green;<br /> +And in the early morning tide<br /> + They of the foemen slew fifteen.</p> +<p>Then they their backs together placed,<br /> + Where thick and high the bushes were;<br /> +They twain alone full thirty slew,<br /> + Acquiring honour ever fair.</p> +<p>It was the young Danneved,<br /> + To his side his trusty faulchion tied;<br /> +And now they both so joyously<br /> + Home to his mother’s castle ride.</p> +<p>It was the young Danneved,<br /> + Came riding to the Castellaye;<br /> +It was then his mother dear<br /> + Came out to meet him, blythe and gay.</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>“Be welcome, little Danneved,<br /> + Be welcome to this house of mine;<br /> +What doth it please thee now to drink?<br /> + O, say, shall it be mead or wine?”</p> +<p>“O, I will ne’er break bread with you,<br /> + Or drink a drop of mead or wine,<br /> +’Till thou hast given the young Swayne Trost<br /> + Fair Ellen, only sister mine.”</p> +<p>“And do thou hear, my dearest son,<br /> + Hear what I now declare to thee;<br /> +As God shall help me in my need,<br /> + Brothers of Ellen both ye be.”</p> +<p>“Now do thou hear, my mother dear,<br /> + Thou’st not to me the truth declar’d;<br +/> +Where didst thou bear the young Swayne Trost,<br /> + That of his birth I never heard?”</p> +<p>“O he was but a little child,<br /> + When him from out the land I sent;<br /> +And, hearing it said that he was dead,<br /> + To none I did my loss lament.”</p> +<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>Then up spoke little Danneved,<br /> + He was the son of a knight so high:<br /> +“Now I have such a brother found,<br /> + I never more will grieve or sigh.</p> +<p>“God’s blessing upon thee, young Swayne Trost,<br +/> + To thee my troth I now will give;<br /> +I’ll ne’er deceive thee, young Swayne Trost,<br /> + As long as I on earth shall live.”</p> +<p>Little Danneved and young Swayne Trost,<br /> + In sables and mard themselves array;<br /> +And both of them took so joyously<br /> + To the imperial Court their way.</p> +<h2><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>SIR PALL, SIR BEAR, AND SIR LIDEN.</h2> +<p>Liden he rode to the Ting, and shewed<br /> + His bloody gashes there:<br /> +“And these were done by no other one<br /> + But my dear brother Bear.”</p> +<p>With humble air upstood Sir Bear,<br /> + And for leave to speak he cried:<br /> +“I’ll give thee gold and silver to hold,<br /> + And my good broad lands beside.”</p> +<p>“Keep thou thyself thy silver pelf,<br /> + And thy good broad lands for me;<br /> +By God I swear this little hand fair<br /> + Thy death, brother Bear, shall be.”</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>Home to their hall ride Bear and Pall.<br /> + With unsuspicious mind;<br /> +In wrathful mood, with five swains good,<br /> + Followed Liden close behind.</p> +<p>Sir Pall, and Sir Bear, and Sir Liden, three were,<br /> + And they met the boughs beneath:<br /> +’Twas sad to view how quick out-flew<br /> + Their faulchions from the sheath.</p> +<p>First Pall he slew his brother true,<br /> + Then Bear to death he smote;<br /> +I tell to ye for verity<br /> + His own death wound he got.</p> +<p>They took up with care Sir Pall and Sir Bear,<br /> + To the city them they bore;<br /> +Beneath the skies in the greenwood lies<br /> + Sir Liden amid his gore.</p> +<p>To the earn and the owl and the beasts that prowl<br /> + Sir Liden’s corpse they left;<br /> +When that was said to his plighted maid<br /> + She died of sense bereft.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Had he paid heed to his mother’s rede,<br /> + And himself to the law address’d,<br /> +His brothers twain had remained unslain,<br /> + And their feud had been laid at rest.</p> +<p>In piteous mode wept Mettelil proud,<br /> + The death of her three sons bold:<br /> +“Woe’s me,” cried she, “That e’er +my eyes<br /> + Should this sad hour behold.”</p> +<p>For Pall she wept sore, and still, still more<br /> + For Bear the good and brave;<br /> +But most of all for Sir Liden’s fall,<br /> + For he had no hallowed grave.</p> +<h2><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>BELARDO’S WEDDING</h2> +<p>From the banks, in morning’s beam,<br /> +Of Xarama, famous stream;<br /> +From the spot, or nigh it, where<br /> +It joins the Tagus broad and fair,<br /> +Sped Belardo, blithe and gay,<br /> +To receive the righteous pay<br /> +Of all the years of love he’d spent<br /> +In doubts, and fears, and discontent—</p> +<p> <i>But happy the shepherd who finally +gains</i><br /> + <i>The beautiful prize of his manifold +pains</i>.</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>Unto her village now he goes<br /> +The handsome Philis to espouse;<br /> +For now her father, kind and bland,<br /> +But late so stern, yields him her hand.<br /> +Now in his eyes the shepherd shows<br /> +The rapture in his breast that glows,<br /> +That after storm and hurricane<br /> +The heaven should look bright again.</p> +<p> <i>How happy the shepherd who finally +gains</i><br /> + <i>The beautiful prize of his manifold +pains</i>.</p> +<p>Not as of yore on foot, I trow,<br /> +Or in albarcas goes he now;<br /> +Albarcas made of slain wolf hide,<br /> +In blood of cow or heifer dyed.<br /> +O snow-white pointed shoes wore he,<br /> +Green stockings gartered at the knee;<br /> +Button composed of burning glass,<br /> +Presented, mind ye, by his lass.</p> +<p> <i>How happy the shepherd who finally +gains</i><br /> + <i>The beautiful prize of his manifold +pains</i>.</p> +<p><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>What a knight of gallant air<br /> +Rides he forth on sorrel mare;<br /> +Saddle of Friezeland leather made,<br /> +Fringe of the most dainty thread.<br /> +Sombrero new, of neatest shape,<br /> +Mantle long with lengthy cape,<br /> +Sayo green, obscure to see,<br /> +Graced with much embroidery.</p> +<p> <i>How happy the shepherd who finally +gains</i><br /> + <i>The beautiful prize of his labour and +pains</i>.</p> +<p>By the guise in which he’s drest,<br /> +His hopes are visibly exprest;<br /> +Hopes which so often damped and chilled<br /> +Are on the point to be fulfilled.<br /> +Within his bosom he doth bear<br /> +All the billets of his dear;<br /> +They are so many bills which he<br /> +Is bent to settle speedily.</p> +<p> <i>Happy the shepherd who finally +gains</i><br /> + <i>The beautiful prize of his manifold +pains</i>.</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>Arriving at the house he saw,<br /> +Waiting for him, his father-in-law,<br /> +Who, good-bye to scoffs and slights,<br /> +Holds his stirrup whilst he lights.<br /> +Lovely Philis at the door<br /> +Calls him “husband” and “senor;”<br /> +He “senora” and “dear wife”<br /> +Calleth her, they’re one for life.</p> +<p> <i>Happy the shepherd who finally +gains</i><br /> + <i>The beautiful prize of his manifold +pains</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>THE YEW TREE</h2> +<p>O tree of yew, which here I spy,<br /> +By Forida’s famed monastery;<br /> +Beneath thee lies, by cold death bound,<br /> +The tongue for sweetness once renown’d.</p> +<p>Thou noble tree who shelterest kind,<br /> +The grave from winter’s snow and wind,<br /> +May lightning never lay thee low,<br /> +Nor archer cut from thee his bow;<br /> +Nor Crispin peel thee, pegs to frame,<br /> +But may thou ever bloom the same;<br /> +A noble tree the grave to guard<br /> +Of Cambria’s most illustrious bard!</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 28--><a +name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 28</span><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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