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Title: The pictorial book of ancient ballad poetry of Great Britain, historical, traditional, and romantic: to which are added, a selection of modern imitations, and some translations
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph S., ed. (from old catalog)
Subjects: English ballads and songs
Publisher: London, H. Washbourne & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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of fair Scotland, They dealt gold for her sake;And the fourth kirk of fair Scotland, Her true love met them at. THE JOLLY GOSHAWK Set down, set down the corpse, he said, Till I look on the dead;The last time that I saw her face, She ruddy was and red.But now, alas! and woe is me, Shes wallowed like a weed. He rent the sheet upon her face, A little aboon her chin;With lily white cheek, and lemin* eyrie, She lookt and laught to him. Give me a chive of your bread, my love, A bottle of your wine;For I have fasted for your love, These weary lang days nine;Theres not a steed in your stable, But would have been dead ere syne. Gae hame, gae hame, my seven brothers, Gae hame and blaw the horn;For you can say in the south of England Your sister gave you a scorn. I came not here to fair Scotland, To lye amang the meal;But I came here to fair Scotland, To wear the silks so weel. I came not here to fair Scotland, To lye among the dead;But I come here to fair Scotland, To wear the gold so red. 3-r
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(The ballad of Fair Rosamond, says Dr. Percy, (Re-liques,ii., 155,) appears to have been first published inStrange Histories, or Songs and Sonnets of Kinges,Princes, Dukes, Lords, Ladyes, Knights, and Gentlemen,&c. By Thomas Deloney, London, 1612, 4to. In the• Reliques the ballad was f printed, with conjectural emen-dations, from four ancient copies in black-letter; two ofthem in the Pepys library. These several copies vary con-siderably one from another. Our text is not that of any oneof them, to the exclusion of the others; though it princi-pally follows the version of the Strange Histories, as re-printed by the Percy Society from the only known perfectcopy ; the date of which however is not 1612, but 1607. Withregard to the heroine, she was, according to Stowe, the fayredaughter of Walter Lord Clifford, concubine to Henry II.(poisoned by Queen Elianor, as some thought) and dyed atWoodstocke(A.D.U779) where King Henry had made for hera houseof wonderfulle working, so that no m

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