Category: Poetry
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6. She show’d me a cup o’ the good red gold, Well set wi’ jewls sae fair to see; Says, ‘Gin you will be my lemman sae true, This goodly gift I will you gi’.’
8. Part 8[Annotations: 2.1,2: ‘White’: so in the MS.; perhaps should be ‘while’ in each case. ‘washed’ is _washee_ in the MS. 9.1: ‘Three,’ Percy’s emendation of _They_ in the MS. 9.2: ‘...
4. Part 46. Then up and spak the clerk’s ladye, And she spak pow’rfully: ‘O tak with ye a purse of gold, Or take with ye three, And if ye canna get William, Bring Andrew hame to me.’
3. Part 3+The Story+ is so simple, and so reminiscent of other ballads, that we must suppose this version to be but a fragment of some forgotten ballad. Its chief interest lies in the se...
9. Part 925. ‘Yea, that I shall do, and make your grace merry: You thinke I’m the abbot of Canterbùrye; But I’m his poor shepheard, as plain you may see, That am come to beg pardon for h...
6. Part 6[Annotations: 2.3: ‘rout,’ roar. 2.4: ‘withershins,’ backwards, the wrong way, the opposite of the desired way. Often = contrary to the way of the sun, but not necessarily. See...
10. Part 10[Annotations: 9.2: The line is partly cut away in the MS.: I follow the suggestion of Hales and Furnivall. 10.4: In the MS. the line stands: ‘To learn the speeches of all strang...
5. Part 5+The Texts+ of these two variations on the same theme are taken from T. Ravenscroft’s _Melismata_, 1611, and Scott’s _Minstrelsy_, 1803, respectively. There are several other ve...
7. Part 7[Annotations: 5.1: What aileth thee? 5.3, etc.: ‘Lakkyt the,’ Dost thou lack. 7.1: ‘wod,’ mad. 7.2: ‘brede,’ rouse, _i.e._ become angry (?). 11.1, etc.: ‘Rysyt,’ ‘ledit,’ ‘stoni...
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11. Part 1122. ‘O I will hae none o’ your gold,’ she says, ‘Nor as little ony of your fee, But I will hae your ain body, The king has granted me.’
12. Part 12Thomas Rymer 11.2: ‘Lay down your head upon my knee,’ [_close quote missing_] Tam Lin, Introduction: the nereid cried out, ‘Let go my child, dog!’ [_invisible close quote_] The...