The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
33^1. That ladye.
34^3. Which waye we best may turne.
34^4. To save this fayre.
37^1. groweth.
42^2. On towe good renish; _so_ #a.#
46^3. Ild saye.
49^1. he light off.
49^2. Up att the fayre hall.
49^4. Light on.
50^1. Stable thou.
50^2. Goe stable.
50^4. To stable him.
51^3. And aye that I cold but find the man.
52^1. sayd the Paynim kyng.
52^4. That will.
55^3. written.
56.
Kyng Estmere then pulled forth his harpe,
And playd thereon so sweete;
Upstarte the ladye from the kynge,
As hee sate at the meate.
57.
'Nowe stay thy harpe, thou proud harper,
Now stay thy harpe, I say;
For an thou playest as thou beginnest,
Thou'lt till my bride awaye.'
58.
He strucke upon his harpe agayne,
And playd both fayre and free;
The ladye was so pleasde theratt
She laught loud laughters three.
59.
'Nowe sell me thy harpe,' sayd the kyng of Spayne,
'Thy harpe and stryngs eche one,
And as many gold nobles thou shalt have
As there be stryngs thereon.'
60^1. And what.
61.
'Now sell me,' syr kyng, 'thy bryde soe gay,
As shee sitts laced in pall,
And as many gold nobles I will give
As there be rings in the hall.'
62^2. her yee.
65^4. hath Sir Bremor slayne.
68^1. can byte.
[58] "The editor... must plead guilty to the charge of concealing his
own share in the amendments under some such general title as a Modern
Copy, or the like:" Reliques, 1794, I, xvii. See, further, 'The Rising
in the North' and 'Northumberland betrayed by Douglas,' in the same
volume, pp 288, 297.
[59] We have _paynim_ four times in the first edition, and only twice
in the fourth. _And ever I feare that paynim king_, #b# 21^3, gives
place to _I cannot blame him if he doe_. _Laught loud laughters three_,
#b# 58^4, was not (as who needs to be told?) the reading of the folio;
but was _lough a loud laughter_ the reading of the folio?
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