Ancient Ballads And Songs Chiefly From Tradition Manuscripts And Scarce Works
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His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl name, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet; Our dinner's sure, our feasting free, Come, and dine by the greenwood tree. Ye shall sit on his white hause-bane, I will pike out his bonnie blue een; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair, To theak your nest when it grows bare; The gowden down on his young chin, Will do to sewe my young ones in. Oh ! cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms sin...g in the tree; At his head a turf, at his feet a stone, He will sleep, nor hear the maiden's moan; O'er his white bones the birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. RAVENSCROFT'S MELISMATA. 65 The late Mr. John Findlay, author of Wallace, or the Vale of Ellerslie, &c. Seems also to have borne Ravenscroft's " Three Ravens" in mind, when he composed his Dirge of the Slain Knight, beginning, " A knight there came from the field of slain, His steed was drench'd with the falling rain.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild fowl name, His lady's away with another mate, So we shall make our dinner sweet; Our dinner's sure, our feasting free, Come, and dine by the greenwood tree. Ye shall sit on his white hause-bane, I will pike out his bonnie blue een; Ye'll take a tress of his yellow hair, To theak your nest when it grows bare; The gowden down on his young chin, Will do to sewe my young ones in. Oh ! cauld and bare will his bed be, When winter storms sin...g in the tree; At his head a turf, at his feet a stone, He will sleep, nor hear the maiden's moan; O'er his white bones the birds shall fly, The wild deer bound, and foxes cry. RAVENSCROFT'S MELISMATA. 65 The late Mr. John Findlay, author of Wallace, or the Vale of Ellerslie, &c. Seems also to have borne Ravenscroft's " Three Ravens" in mind, when he composed his Dirge of the Slain Knight, beginning, " A knight there came from the field of slain, His steed was drench'd with the falling rain.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Thomas Lyle to read onlineMoreLess
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