Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham
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Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham
Sir James Duncan and Co their kind compliments send 97
Liddell, farewell! to all true Britons dear 99
In hollow murmurs o’er the bending reeds 100
Of a’ the many bonny corps 101
Come, haste to Newcastle, ye sons of fair freedom 102
The plaint of a mourner, deep sorrow oppres’d with 103
Hey, Jacky, ma honey, hae ye seen the new money 105
Fra Benton Bank, to Benton town 106
Yt fell abowght the Lamasse tyde 107
The Perssye came byfore hys oste 111
It fell and about the Lammas time 116
The Persé owt off Northomberlonde 118
The Yngglyshe men hade ther bowys yebent 122
God prosper long our noble king 128
I have heard of a lilting, at our ewe’s milking 136
From Spey to the border 137
’Twas he that rul’d his Country’s heart 142
On July seventh, the suthe to say 143
When we were silly sisters seven, sisters we were so fair 147
There’s Roadley’s ‘cloud capt’ lofty hill 150
Sir Swinton was a doughty knight 152
The king is gone from Bambrough Castle 156
On Bamboroughshire’s rocky shore 161
The kye are come hame _ib._
Come you lusty Northerne lads 162
Here lies the corpse of William Bell 166
Wold you please to hear of a sang of dule _ib._
Old Janus advances all cloathed in white 171
The routing the earl of Mar’s forces 175
Of all the Kirkharle bonny lasses 180
Good people, give ear to the fatalest duel 184
Ye muses nine, if ye think fit 185
Good Master Moody 188
The little priest of Felton 189
There lives a lass in Felton town 190
In second part I will declare 192
He’s gone! he’s gone 195
On Saturday 196
God prosper long our noble king 197
Callaly Castle stands on a height 199
In Bedlington, there liv’d a fair 200
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