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diff --git a/28816.txt b/28816.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfe92c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/28816.txt @@ -0,0 +1,929 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Signelil, by Anonymous, 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: Signelil + a Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads + + +Author: Anonymous + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: May 14, 2009 [eBook #28816] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGNELIL*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + SIGNELIL + A TALE FROM THE CORNISH + 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_. + + + + +SIGNELIL + + +The Lady her handmaid to questioning took: +"Why dost thou so sickly and colourless look?" + _But sorrow gnaws so sorely_! + +"'Tis little wonder if sickly I'm growing, + _Malfred my lady_! +So much am I busied with cutting and sewing." + +"Erewhile was thy cheek as the blooming rose red, +But now thou art pale, even pale as the dead." + +"To conceal the truth longer 'tis vain to essay, +My gallant young master has led me astray." + +"And if the young noble has led thee astray, +Say, what gave he thee for thy virtue in pay?" + +"He gave to me shoes were gold spangled all o'er, +And them have I worn with affliction so sore. + +"He gave to me also of silk a soft shift, +And with sorrow most painful I've worn the fair gift. + +"He gave me, Christ sain him! a gold ring so fine, +Whose match I can see on no finger of thine." + +"But what will avail thee his presents of price, +If he thee will not wed before God and men's eyes?" + +"O, he to espouse me so often has vowed, +And rich presents beside upon me has bestowed." + +"What will his vows help thee in secrecy spoke? +To many a maid them he has made and has broke." + +"O, I on the gold harp will play me a tune, +And the knight to his presence will summon me soon." + +With her fingers so tapering she struck the first chord, +That heard, as he dozed in his bed, the young lord. + +The gallant young lord to his waiting-boy said: +"Go straight, and call hither my mother's fair maid." + +The bedside he stroked with so gentle an air: +"Dear heart, sit thee down, for thy weight it will bear." + +"O no, by the Saints, I will never do that, +For there, noble Sir, I have ne'er before sat." + +"Though thou ne'er hast placed thee upon my bedside, +Thou hast slept in my arms embraced many a tide. + +"My spouse thou shalt be, yea, my heart's beloved spouse, +And I in thine arms every night will repose." + + + + +A TALE FROM THE CORNISH + + + In Lavan's parish once of yore, +Dwelt on the spot called Tshei an Hor, +A loving couple, man and wife, +But poverty distressed their life. +And thus the man his wife address'd: +"I'll wander forth of work in quest; +And you, my dearest, you can earn +Your living here till I return." + + His home he leaves, and, far from gay, +Towards the East he took his way. +At length a farmer's dwelling reaching, +He enter'd it, for work beseeching. +"What work canst do?" the farmer cried; +"All kinds of work, Sir," John replied. +Then straight they for a year agree, +Three pounds the wages were to be. + +And when the year to end had come +The master paid him down the sum. +"John," said his master, "here's your fee; +But if you'll it return to me, +A point of wisdom I will teach you." +Said John: "Give it me, I beseech you." +"No, no, to give is not my way." +"Take it," said John, "and say your say." +Quoth t'other: "This in memory hold: +_Ne'er for the new road leave the old_." + +They for another year agree, +The wages just the same to be; +And when the year its end had reached, +The farmer forth the three pounds fetched. +"John," said his master, "here's your fee, +But if you'll it return to me, +A point of wisdom I will teach you." +"Give it me, Sir, I do beseech you." +"For nought I will not speak, not I." +"Well, take it then," was John's reply. +Quoth t'other: "_Lodge not_, _for your life_, +_With an old man who's a young wife_." + +For yet a year they then agree, +The wages still the same to be. +And when the year to end had roll'd, +The three pounds out the master told. +"John," said the master, "here's your fee; +But if you'll it return to me, +I'll the best point of wisdom learn you." +"For that, Sir, I'll the wage return you." +The farmer said: "_Take this advice_, +_Ere striking once_, _bethink thee twice_." + +Now John would serve no longer there, +Home to his wife he would repair. +"Go not to-day," the farmer spake, +"To-morrow's my wife's day to bake; +She shall for you prepare a cake +Home to your faithful wife to take." + +The nine pounds in the loaf they hid, +And when John them adieu had bid, +The farmer cried: "I pray thee carry +This present home unto your deary; +And as ye two there merry make, +Then, and not till then, part the cake." + +John turned him homeward from the door; +And when he reach'd St. Eler's Moor, +He met three Tre-ryn merchants there +Returning home from Exeter. +"We're glad to see thee, John," they cried, +"Where hast thou been this long, long tide?" +Says John: "I'm just from service come, +And to my wife am journeying home." +"O travel with us," cried all three, +"And very welcome shalt thou be." + +Before them two roads they behold; +They took the new, John kept the old. +And as they passed by Keou Tshoy Un, +When they had just lost sight of John, +Thieves set upon them furiously, +Whereat they raised a doleful cry, +Which reaching John's ears on his rout, +"Murder!" and "Thieves!" he bellowed out. + +His clamour scared the robber train, +Who from the merchants sped amain. +And when they came to Market Jew +They to their joy met John anew, +And cried: "What thanks we owe thee, John! +We had for certain, every one, +Been ruined people, but for thee, +Come with us, thou'lt most welcome be." + +And when they reached the hostelrie +At which it was their wont to lie, +Quoth John: "The master I must view." +"The master! what with him wouldst do?" +They answered, "we've a mistress here, +And young enough she is, and fair; +To see the host, if you're inclined, +Him in the kitchen you will find." + +Into the kitchen John he goes, +And sees the master of the house, +An ancient man who turned the spit. +"O, ho!" said John, "this house I quit; +No sleeping place of it I'll make, +But in the next will quarters take." +"Do not go yet," they cried all three, +"Stay, sup with us, thou'lt welcome be." + +And now, with grief and shame, I say +That with a friar of orders grey +The mistress had contrived a plan +To murder the poor ancient man, +When sleep had bound the merchants fast, +And on their heads the crime to cast. + +John in the next house that same night +Saw through a hole i' the wall a light. +So getting up and gently walking, +He heard the friar and woman talking. +The friar said: "Against yon hole +My back I'll set, for fear some soul +From the next house our deeds should spy." + +The hostess then most cruelly, +With a silk handkerchief she bore, +Murdered her ancient husband poor, +Strangled him did the accursed slut. +But meanwhile through the hole John cut +A round piece from the friar's gown, +And then in bed again lay down. + +At morn ran out the hostess crying +That murdered was her husband lying; +And since nor man nor child had been, +Except the merchants, in the inn, +They should be hanged withouten fail; +They thereupon were led to jail. +John quickly them a visit paid. +"O, John! we've evil luck," they said; +"Last night the host was choked in bed, +And upon us the crime is laid." + +"Dear gentlemen," was John's reply, +"Beseech the Justice instantly +To cause them who the murder wrought +Into his presence to be brought." + +"But who knows who the deed has done?" +They faltered forth; then answered John: +"If I can't prove who did it, I +Will hang for it most willingly." + +"Speak out," they cried. Said John: "Last night, +Being in bed, I saw a light; +I rose, as if I'd had a call-- +There was a hole in the house wall, +'Gainst which his back a certain friar +Placed, thereby blinding it entire, +Lest, as he said, some curious eye +From the next house their deeds should spy. +I cut, meanwhile, to him unknown, +A large round piece from off his gown. +To prove that what I've said is true +I've in my pouch the piece to shew." +The merchants then were soon set free; +The murderers died on gallows tree. + +All three depart from Market Jew, +Together with their comrade true, +Far as Kuz carn na Huila went, +And thence their ways lay different. +Now though the merchants earnest were +That John should with them home repair, +He steadfastly refused their plea, +Longing his wife and home to see. + +When of the merchants he lost sight +He lounged away his time till night. +He'd fain know whether, while he roved +Abroad, his consort faithful proved. + +Arrived, he listened at the door, +And heard a man's voice, he was sure, +Within the bed; his knife he drew, +Resolved to slay the guilty two. +But soon remembering the advice, +"_Ere striking once_, _bethink thee twice_," +In hurry from the door he strode, +But soon returning knocked aloud. + +"In name of God, who's there?" she cried; +"'Tis I am here, wife," John replied. +("Now in the name of blest Marie, +Whom heard I in her company?") +"If John thou art, pray enter free." +"First bring the light here," answered he. +'Twas brought, he stepped the threshold o'er. +Quoth he: "On coming to the door +I heard a man's voice in the bed." +"Ah, Johnny, when away you sped +In distant parts for work to roam, +I then with child was three months gone; +In bed there lies a comely boy, +Unto us both he'll be a joy." + +Said John, "I've something to disclose. +My master, when I left his house, +Gave me this cake I have in hand, +And with it gave the strict command +When I with thee should merry make +Then and not till then it to break. +I'll now accomplish what he bade, +Mayhap we've wherefor to be glad." + +They broke the cake in anxious haste, +The nine pounds in it, lo! were placed. +They took the money, ate the bread, +And I for truth have heard it said +No quarrel e'er or noisy word +'Twixt them from that time forth occurr'd. + + Now, Gentles all, my tale is done, +I hope it has your favour won! + + + + +SIR VERNER AND DAME INGEBORG + + + In Linholm's house +The swains they were drinking and making carouse. + _The Dames ne'er could so gallant a prisoner keep in_. + +The swains they drank deep and they made themselves gay, +And so did Sir Verner in prison that lay. + +Dame Ingeborg woke, and she lifts up her eyes: +"O, which of my maidens doth sing in that guise?" + +"O, none of your maidens can sing in such guise, +'Tis Sir Verner who's singing, in durance he lies." + +Dame Ingeborg straightway two servants addressed: +"To come to my presence Sir Verner request." + +In through the portal Sir Verner he strode, +And up to receive him Dame Ingeborg stood. + +To the cushion Dame Ingeborg points with a smile: +"Go thither, Sir Verner, and rest thee awhile. + +"Now hark thou, Sir Verner, what I to thee say: +I beg thou wilt sing me a pretty love lay." + +"A love lay I've never learnt up to this hour, +But I'll sing to oblige thee the best in my power." + +Sir Verner began, and he sang such a lay, +That soon in deep slumber Dame Ingeborg lay. + +The Dames and the maids fell to sleep and to doze, +Dame Ingeborg sank to a peaceful repose. + +Sir Verner he glanced then so cautiously round, +The keys great and small in a nook he has found. + +To the door hied Sir Verner as fast as he might, +He forgot to bid Dame Ingeborg a good-night. + +When out of the castle himself he perceived, +His voice in a ditty again he upheaved. + +Sir Verner he waved up his hat with delight: +"Dame Ingeborg bid ye a very good night! + +"And hear thou, Sir Warden, who stand'st on thy watch, +Of my ditty the burden I pray thee to catch. + +"She'd this e'en not have taken a bushel of gold, +Now no penny for me shall she ever behold." + +So fast to the door went Sir Verner the knight, +He forgot to bid Damsel or Lady good-night. + + + + +THE HEDDEBY SPECTRE {22} + + +At evening fall I chanced to ride, +My courser to a tree I tied. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +Against a stump my head I laid, +And then to slumber I essay'd. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +As soon as sleep had closed my eye, +The murdered man to me drew nigh. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"And if thy race to mine belongs, +I call thee to avenge my wrongs. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"And them to Heddeby shalt ride, +For there my kith and kin reside. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"My father dwells there, and my mother, +There dwell my sister and my brother. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"There Kirsten dwells, my lovely wife, +And it was she who took my life. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"Her sleeping husband stifled she, +With aid of cursed beldames three. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"Then in a truss of hay concealed, +They brought me forth to this wide field. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"The page I loved the best of all, +Now rides upon my courser tall. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"Eats daily with my silver knife, +And sleeps with Kirsten fair, my wife. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"He sitteth highest at the board, +My children tremble at his word. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"To them he gives so little bread, +And mocks them now that I am dead. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"He rides about the forest grounds, +And hunts the red deer with my hounds. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"Each time the caitiff slays a deer, +He wakes me in my grave so drear. + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + +"But if I to him once repair, +With him 'twill sorely, sorely fare." + _So wide thereof the story goes_. + + + + +FROM GOUDELI + + +Yestere'en when the bat, and the owl, and his mate, + Were holding discourse their small matters about; + And the sun, that the wee little stars might shine out, +Had extinguished the lamp of his lustre so great. + +A shepherd exclaimed: "O 'twas folly that I + My love should bestow upon one never kind, + Upon Siris the lovely, whose cold, cruel mind, +Would suffer unmoved a true lover to die. + +"Often times, when our flocks on the common did browse, +I'd approach her to pour in her ear my fond vows, + But unto her companions to haste she was sure. +O, light of my eyes! wouldst thou render me blest, +And wouldst grant me two kisses on thy snowy breast, + I swear that each one should an hour endure!" + + + + +PEASANT SONGS OF SPAIN + + +1. + + +When Jesu our Redeemer + To him the twelve did call, +By threes and fours he called them, + Till they were mustered all. + +And when they all were mustered, + 'Twas thus to them he spake: +"O which of ye, my children, + Will perish for my sake?" + +Then, gazing on each other, + They stood abashed and still; +All save Saint John the Baptist, + And Peter of the Hill. + +"We'll die for thee, O Jesus, + Upon to-morrow's morn." +For him died John the Baptist, + And suffered pain and scorn. + + + +2. + + +There stands a stone, a rounded stone, + 'Midst ocean's surges hoary, +On which sweet Jesus set his foot + When mounting to his glory. + +There grows a rose, a blooming rose, + 'Midst ocean's briny waters, +That o'er may pass, to hear the mass, + Havanah's dusky daughters. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. WISE, Hampstead, N.W. + + _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_. + + + + +Footnotes: + + +{22} An earlier, and utterly different, version of this ballad was +printed in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp. 37-39. Borrow afterwards +described this earlier version as "a paraphrase." + + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGNELIL*** + + +******* This file should be named 28816.txt or 28816.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/8/1/28816 + + + +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. 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