 | 1858 - 862 pages
...Motherwell's Minstrelsy, its recovery is due to the industry of Mr Peter Buchan of Peterhead. KEMP OWAIN. " Her mother died when she was young, Which gave her cause to make great moon ; Her father married the worst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. She served her with foot... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1857 - 512 pages
...The copy of Kemp Owyne printed in Buchan's Ancient Ballads, (ii. 78,) is the same as the following. HER mother died when she was young, Which gave her cause to make great moan ; . " On sea, on land, thou still didst brave The dangerous cliff and rapid wave ; Like Urien, who... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1857 - 496 pages
...The copy of Kemp Owyne printed in Buehan's Ancient Ballads, (ii. 78,) is the same as the following. HER mother died when she was young, Which gave her cause to moke great moan ; * " Oil sea, on land, thou still didst brave The dangerous cliff and rapid wave ;... | |
 | England - 1858 - 796 pages
...mother died when she was voung, Which gave her cause tu iii:tko great moan; Her father married the worst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. She served...that she could dee, Till once In an unlucky time, bhe threw her in ower Craigy's sea. Bays, * Lie you there, dove Isabel, And all my sorrows lie with... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Ballads, English - 1858 - 430 pages
...champion) is of Gothic origin, and does not belong to Wales. TTER mother died when she was young, -U- Which gave her cause to make great moan ; Her father married the worst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. She served her with foot and hand, In every thing that... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Ballads, English - 1859 - 420 pages
...may observe that the word Kemp (meaning champion) is of Gothic origin, and does not belong to Wales. HER mother died when she was young, Which gave her cause to make great moan ; Her father married the worst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. She served her with foot and hand, In every thing that... | |
 | William Edmondstoune Aytoun - Ballads, Scots - 1859 - 426 pages
...observe that the word Kemp (meaning champion) is of Qothic origin, and does not belong to Wales. TTER mother died when she was young, •*-*• Which gave...her cause to make great moan Her father married the worst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. She served her with foot and hand, In every thing that... | |
 | Ballads, Danish - 1860 - 522 pages
...father's second marriage is very common in the talcs and ballads of the middle ages. So in Kemp Owayne Her mother died when she was young, Which gave her...married the warst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. Molhciw. p. 371. And again in Sir Gawaine we find the usual story. My father was an aged knighte ,... | |
 | Ballads, Danish - 1860 - 518 pages
...father's second marriage is very common in the tales and ballads of the middle ages. So in Kemp Owaync Her mother died when she was young, Which gave her...married the warst woman, That ever lived in Christendom. And again in Sir Gawaine we find the usual story. My father was an aged knighte , And yet it chanced... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1860 - 374 pages
...The grim, black warrior of the flood, The dragon, gorged with human blood, The waters' scaly pride." Her father married the warst woman That ever lived...in Christendom. She served her with foot and hand, s In every thing that she could dee ; Till once, in an unlucky time, She threw her in ower Craigy's... | |
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Lie you there, dove Isabel, And all my sorrows lie with thee ; Till Kemp Owyne come ower the sea, And borrow you with kisses three, Let all the warld do what they will, Oh borrowed shall you never be ! 
