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... light the fire . " " A scrubby , shabby paper book " it may have been , with some leaves torn half away and others lacking altogether , but it was a genuine ballad manuscript , in handwriting of about the year 1650 , and Percy , realiz ...
... light the fire . " " A scrubby , shabby paper book " it may have been , with some leaves torn half away and others lacking altogether , but it was a genuine ballad manuscript , in handwriting of about the year 1650 , and Percy , realiz ...
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... lights and shadows , so pure with chivalric sentiment ; but an earlier result was The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , a collection of folk - songs gleaned in vacation excursions from pipers and shepherds and old peasant women of the ...
... lights and shadows , so pure with chivalric sentiment ; but an earlier result was The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , a collection of folk - songs gleaned in vacation excursions from pipers and shepherds and old peasant women of the ...
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... light o ' the moon , And she's awa to Carterhaugh , As fast as she could gang . She hadna pu'd a red red rose , A rose but barely three , When up and starts the young Tamlane , Says , " Lady , let a - be ! " What gars ye pu ' the rose ...
... light o ' the moon , And she's awa to Carterhaugh , As fast as she could gang . She hadna pu'd a red red rose , A rose but barely three , When up and starts the young Tamlane , Says , " Lady , let a - be ! " What gars ye pu ' the rose ...
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... Light down , light down now , Thomas , " she said , " And lean your head upon my knee ; Light down , and rest a little space , And I will show you ferlies three . " O see ye na that braid braid road , That stretches o'er the lily leven ...
... Light down , light down now , Thomas , " she said , " And lean your head upon my knee ; Light down , and rest a little space , And I will show you ferlies three . " O see ye na that braid braid road , That stretches o'er the lily leven ...
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... light , And they waded through red blude to the knee ; For a ' the blude that's shed on earth , Rins through the springs o ' that countrie . Syne they came to a garden green , And she pu'd an apple frae a tree - " Take this for thy ...
... light , And they waded through red blude to the knee ; For a ' the blude that's shed on earth , Rins through the springs o ' that countrie . Syne they came to a garden green , And she pu'd an apple frae a tree - " Take this for thy ...
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Page 220 - They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England. They say many young gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
Page 110 - Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough. With a green sod under my head ; That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood.
Page 201 - O that I were where Helen lies! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says,
Page 37 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna...
Page 61 - Our gude ship sails the morn!"— "Now, ever alack, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! "I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 12 - O no, O no, Thomas," she said, That name does not belang to me ; I am but the queen of fair Elfland, That am hither come to visit thee.
Page 104 - I have no money," the young man said, "But five shillings and a ring; And that I have kept this seven long years, To have it at my wedding. "Yesterday I should have married a maid, But she is now from me ta'en, And chosen to be an old knight's delight, Whereby my poor heart is slain.
Page 200 - As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day...
Page 108 - Nor he could not get down. He then bethought him of his bugle-horn, Which hung low down to his knee, He set his horn unto his mouth, And blew out weak blasts three. Then Little John, when hearing him, As he sat under the tree, " I fear my master is near dead, He blows so wearily.
Page 131 - They lighted down to tak a drink Of the spring that ran sae clear : And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood, And sair she 'gan to fear. " Hold up, hold up, Lord William...