Old English ballads, favourite ballads of the olden time1864 |
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abbot Adam Bell Andrew Barton Anthony à Wood arrowes awaye baron blow bold Robin Hood boone Caerlel cowe-hide curtall fryer Dale daye dear doth downe Earl Douglas Edom fair Annet faire Emmeline fast fayre fell fellow fight fought gallant Gernutus gold grace Greensleeves Grissel hand hanged hath heart heire of Linne High trolollie horse Horseley hundred hunt JOHN GILBERT king knee knight lady ladye Lancelot land Little John merry miller myght never noble nut-browne bride old cap Piercy pinnace pound pretty Bessee quoth Robin Hood sayd sayd Adam sayd the kyng sayes Scadlocke shee Sir Andrew Barton sir Valentine slain sonne soon tanner tell thee theyr THOMAS Thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thre took trusty unto wend whan wife wold wyfe wyll Wyllyam of Cloudeslè yemen yonder young
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Page 266 - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day ; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear; Hounds are in their couples yelling. Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily merrily mingle they: Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Page 194 - I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare, go bare; Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Page 254 - The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.
Page 237 - His life is neither toss'd in boist'rous seas Of troublous world, nor lost in slothful ease : Pleased, and full blest he lives, when he his God can please.
Page 243 - Come forth, my Lord, and see the Cart Drest up with all the Country Art. See, here a Maukin, there a sheet, As spotlesse pure, as it is sweet : The Horses, Mares, and frisking Fillies, (Clad, all, in Linnen, white as Lillies.
Page 253 - I in these flowery meads would be : These crystal streams should solace me ; To whose harmonious bubbling noise I with my angle would rejoice...
Page 93 - LORD THOMAS and Fair Annet Sate a' day on a hill ; Whan night was cum, and sun was sett, They had not talkt their fill. 2 Lord Thomas said a word in jest, Fair Annet took it ill : ' A, I will nevir wed a wife Against my ain friends
Page 50 - What is thy name?" then said Robin Hood, "Come tell me, without any fail." "By the faith of my body," then said the young man, "My name it is Allin a Dale.
Page 230 - Twixt one another secretly : I mark their gloze, And it disclose To them whom they have wronged so : When I have done, I get me gone, And leave them scolding, ho, ho, ho ! When men do traps and engines...
Page 194 - I cannot eat but little meat, My stomach is not good ; But sure I think, that I can drink With him that wears a hood...