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  Speaker 1: Section zero of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 1: read for LibriVox dot Org by Mike Harris. Introduction. Gerta,
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  Speaker 1: who saw so many things with such clearness of vision,
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  Speaker 1: brought out the charm of the popular ballad for readers
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  Speaker 1: of a later day in his remark that the value
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  Speaker 1: of these songs of the people is to be found
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  Speaker 1: in the fact that their motives are drawn directly from nature.
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  Speaker 1: And he added that in the art of saying things
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  Speaker 1: compactly uneducated men of greater skill than those who are educated.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly true that no kind of verse is so
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  Speaker 1: completely out of the atmosphere of modern writings. The popular ballad.
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  Speaker 1: No other form of verse has therefore, in so great
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  Speaker 1: a degree the charm of freshness in material, treatment and spirit.
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  Speaker 1: These ballads are set in sharp contrast with the poetry
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  Speaker 1: of the hour. They deal with historical events or incidents,
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  Speaker 1: with local traditions, with personal adventure or achievement. They are
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  Speaker 1: almost without exception, entirely objective. Contemporary poetry is, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, very largely subjective, and even when it deals
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  Speaker 1: with events or incidents, it invests them to such a
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  Speaker 1: degree with personal emotion and imagination it so modifies and
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  Speaker 1: colors them with temperamental effects that the resulting poem is
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  Speaker 1: much more a study of subjective conditions than a picture
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  Speaker 1: or drama of objective realities. This projection of the inward
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  Speaker 1: upon the outward world in such a degree that the
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  Speaker 1: dividing line between the two is lost, is strikingly illustrated
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  Speaker 1: in Maeterlink's plays. Nothing could be in sharper contrast, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: than the famous Ballad of the Hunting of the Cheviot
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  Speaker 1: and Maeterlin's Princess Meeleine. There is no atmosphere in a
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  Speaker 1: strict use of the word in the spirited and compact
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  Speaker 1: account of the famous contention between the Percys and the Douglases,
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  Speaker 1: of which Sir Philip Sidney said that I found not
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  Speaker 1: my heart moved more than with a trumpet. It is
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  Speaker 1: a breathless, rushing narrative of a swift succession of events,
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  Speaker 1: told with the most straightforward simplicity. In The Princess Meelein,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, the narrative is so charged with
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  Speaker 1: subjective feeling, the world in which the action takes places,
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  Speaker 1: so deeply tinged with lights that never rested on an
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  Speaker 1: actual landscape that all sense of reality is lost. The
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  Speaker 1: play depends for its effect mainly upon atmosphere. Certainly, very
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  Speaker 1: definite impressions are produced with singular power, but there is
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  Speaker 1: no clear, clean stamping of occurrences on the mind. The
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  Speaker 1: imagination is skillfully awakened and made to do the work
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  Speaker 1: of observation. The note of the popular ballad is its objectivity.
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  Speaker 1: It not only takes us out of doors, but it
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  Speaker 1: also takes us out of the individual consciousness. The manner
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  Speaker 1: is entirely subordinated to the matter. The poet, if there
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  Speaker 1: was a poet in the case, obliterates himself. What we
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  Speaker 1: get is a deafinite report of events which have taken place,
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  Speaker 1: not a study of a man's mind, nor an account
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  Speaker 1: of a man's feelings. The true balladest is never introspective.
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  Speaker 1: He's concerned not with himself but with his story. There
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  Speaker 1: is no self disclosure in his song to the mood
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  Speaker 1: of Senancore and Amiel. He was a stranger. Neither he
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  Speaker 1: nor the men to whom he recited or sang would
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  Speaker 1: have understood that mood. They were primarily and unreflectively absorbed
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  Speaker 1: in the world outside of themselves. They saw far more
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  Speaker 1: than they mediated, they recorded far more than they moralized.
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  Speaker 1: The popular ballads are as a rule, entirely free from
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  Speaker 1: didacticism in any form. That's one of the main sources
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  Speaker 1: of their unfailing charm. They show not only a childlike
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  Speaker 1: curiosity about the doings of the day and the things
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  Speaker 1: that befall men, but a childlike indifference to moral inference
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  Speaker 1: and justification. The bloodier the fray, the better. For ballad purposes.
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  Speaker 1: No one feels the necessity of apology, either for ruthless
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  Speaker 1: aggression or for useless blood letting. The scene is reported
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  Speaker 1: as it was presented to the eye of the spectator,
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  Speaker 1: not to his moralizing faculty. He is expected to see
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  Speaker 1: and to sing, not to scrutinize and meditate. In those
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  Speaker 1: rare cases in which a moral inference is drawn, it's
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  Speaker 1: always so obvious an elementary that it gives the impression
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  Speaker 1: of having been fastened on at the end of the song.
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  Speaker 1: In deference to ecclesiastical rather than popular feeling. The social
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  Speaker 1: and intellectual conditions which fostered itself unconsciousness, interest in things, incidents,
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  Speaker 1: and adventures rather than in moods and inward experiences, and
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  Speaker 1: the unmorl or non moralizing attitude toward events. Fostered also
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  Speaker 1: that delightful naivete, which contributes greatly to the charm of
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  Speaker 1: many of the best ballads, a naivete which often heightens
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  Speaker 1: the pathos, an at times softens it with touches of
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  Speaker 1: apparently unconscious humor. The naivete the child, which has in
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  Speaker 1: it something of the freshness of a wild flower, and
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  Speaker 1: yet has also a wonderful instinct for making the heart
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  Speaker 1: of the matter plain. This quality has almost entirely disappeared
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  Speaker 1: from contemporary verse among cultivated races. One must go to
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  Speaker 1: the peasants of remote parts of the continent to discover
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  Speaker 1: even a trace of its presence. It has a real,
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  Speaker 1: but short lived charm, like the freshness which shines on
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  Speaker 1: meadow and garden in the brief dawn which hastens on
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  Speaker 1: to day. This frank, direct play of thoughts and feeling
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  Speaker 1: on an incident or series of incidents compensates for the
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  Speaker 1: absence of a more perfect art in the ballads. Using
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  Speaker 1: the word art in its true sense as including complete,
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  Speaker 1: adequate and beautiful handling of subject matter and masterly working
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  Speaker 1: out of its possibilities, These popular songs so dear to
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of the generations on whose lips they were fashioned,
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  Speaker 1: and to all who care for the fresh note, the
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  Speaker 1: direct word. The un restrained emotion rarely touch the highest
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  Speaker 1: points of poetic achievement. Their charm lies not in their
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  Speaker 1: perfection of form, but in their spontaneity, sincerity, and graphic power.
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  Speaker 1: They are not rivers of song, wide, deep and swift.
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  Speaker 1: They are rather cool, clear springs among the hills. In
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  Speaker 1: the reactions against sophisticated poetry which set in from time
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  Speaker 1: to time, the popular ballad, the true folk song has
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  Speaker 1: often been exalted at the expense of other forms of verse.
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  Speaker 1: It's idle to attempt to arrange the various forms of
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  Speaker 1: poetry in an order of absolute values. It is enough
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  Speaker 1: that each has its own quality and therefore its own value.
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  Speaker 1: The drama, the epic, the ballad, the lyric. Each strikes
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  Speaker 1: its note in the complete expression of human emotion and experience.
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  Speaker 1: Each belongs to a particular stage of development, and each
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  Speaker 1: has the authority and the enduring charm which attached to
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  Speaker 1: every authentic utterance of the spirit of man under the
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  Speaker 1: conditions of life. In this wide range of human expression,
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  Speaker 1: the ballad follows the epic as a kind of aftermath,
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  Speaker 1: a second and scattered harvest, springing without regularity or nurture,
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  Speaker 1: out of a rich and unexhausted soil. The epic fastens
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  Speaker 1: upon some event of such commanding importance that it marks
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  Speaker 1: a main current of history, some story, historic or mythologic,
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  Speaker 1: some incident. Susceptible of extended narrative treatment. It is always,
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  Speaker 1: in its popular form, a matter of growth, its direct simple,
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  Speaker 1: free from didacticism, representing, as Aristotle says, a single action,
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  Speaker 1: entire and complete. It subordinates character to action. It delights
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  Speaker 1: in episode and dialogue, its content to tell the story
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  Speaker 1: as a story and leave the moralization to hearers or readers.
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  Speaker 1: The popular ballad is so closely related to the popular
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  Speaker 1: epic that it may be said to reproduce its qualities
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  Speaker 1: and characteristics within a narrower compass and on a smaller scale.
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  Speaker 1: It is also a piece of the memory of the people,
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  Speaker 1: or a creation of the imagination of the people, but
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  Speaker 1: the tradition or fact which it preserves is of local
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  Speaker 1: rather than national importance. It is indifferent to nice distinctions
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  Speaker 1: and delicate gradations or shadings. Its power springs from its directness,
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  Speaker 1: vigor and simplicity. It's often entirely occupied with the narration
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  Speaker 1: or description of a single episode. It has no room
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  Speaker 1: for dialogue, but it often secures the effect of the
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  Speaker 1: dialog by its unconventional freedom of phrase, and sometimes by
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  Speaker 1: the introduction of brief and compact charge and denial, question
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  Speaker 1: and reply. Sometimes the incidents upon which the ballad makers
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  Speaker 1: fastened have a unity or connection with each other which
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  Speaker 1: hints at a complete story. The ballads which deal with
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  Speaker 1: robin Hood are so numerous and so closely related that
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  Speaker 1: they constantly suggest not only the possibility but the probability
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  Speaker 1: of epic treatment. It surprising that the richness of the
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  Speaker 1: material and its notable illustrative quality did not inspire some
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  Speaker 1: earlier chaucer to combine the incidents in a sustained narrative.
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  Speaker 1: But the epic poet did not appear, and the most
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  Speaker 1: representative of English popular heroes remains the central figure in
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  Speaker 1: a series of detached episodes and adventures preserved in a
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  Speaker 1: long line of disconnected ballads. This apparent arrest in the
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  Speaker 1: ballad stage of a story which seemed destined to become
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  Speaker 1: an epic naturally suggests the vexed question of the authorship
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  Speaker 1: of the popular ballads, there, in a very real sense,
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  Speaker 1: the songs of the people. They make no claim to
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  Speaker 1: individual authorship. On the contrary, the inference of what may
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  Speaker 1: be called community authorship is in many instances irresistible. They
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  Speaker 1: are the product of a social condition, which, so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: holds song of this kind in solution of an age
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  Speaker 1: in which improvisation, sininging, and dancing are the most natural
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  Speaker 1: and familiar forms of expression. They deal almost without exception
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  Speaker 1: with matters which belong to the community, memory or imagination.
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  Speaker 1: They constantly reappear with variations so noticeable as to indicate
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  Speaker 1: free and common handling of themes of wide local interest.
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  Speaker 1: All this is true of the popular ballad. But all
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  Speaker 1: this does not decisively settle a question of authorship. What
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  Speaker 1: share did the community have in the making of these songs?
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  Speaker 1: And what share fell to individual singers. Herder, whose conception
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  Speaker 1: of the origin and function of literature was so vitalizing
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  Speaker 1: in the general aridity of thinking about the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the last century, and who even more for ballad Verse
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  Speaker 1: in Germany than Bishop Percy did in England, laid emphasis
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  Speaker 1: almost exclusively on community authorship. His profound instinct for reality
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  Speaker 1: in all forms of art. His deep feeling for life
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  Speaker 1: and the immense importance he attached to spontaneity and unconsciousness
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  Speaker 1: and the truest productivity, made community authorship not only attractive
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  Speaker 1: but inevitable to him. In his pronounced reaction against the
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  Speaker 1: superficial ideas of literature so widely held in the Germany
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  Speaker 1: of his time, he espoused the conception of community authorship
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  Speaker 1: as the only possible explanation of the epics, ballads, and
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  Speaker 1: other folk songs. In nature and popular life or universal experience,
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  Speaker 1: he found the rich sources of the poetry whose charm
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  Speaker 1: he felt so deeply, and whose power and beauty he
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  Speaker 1: did so much to reveal to his contemporaries. Genius and
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  Speaker 1: nature are magical words with him, because they suggested such
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  Speaker 1: depths of being under all forms of expression, such unity
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  Speaker 1: of the whole being of a race, in its thought,
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  Speaker 1: its emotion, and its action, such entire unconsciousness of self
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  Speaker 1: or of formulated aim, and such spontaneity of spirit and speech.
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  Speaker 1: The language of those times when words had not yet
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  Speaker 1: been divided into nobles, middle class, and plebeians, was, he said,
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  Speaker 1: the richest for poetical purposes. Our tongue, compared with the
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  Speaker 1: idiom of the savage, seems adapted rather for reflection than
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  Speaker 1: for the senses of imagination. The rhythm of popular verses
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  Speaker 1: so delicate, so rapid, so precise, that it is no
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  Speaker 1: easy matter to defect it with our eyes. But do
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  Speaker 1: not imagine it to have been equally difficult for those
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  Speaker 1: living populations who listened to instead of reading it, who
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  Speaker 1: were accustomed to the sound of it from their infancy,
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  Speaker 1: who themselves sang it, and whose ear had been formed
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  Speaker 1: by its cadence. This conception of poetry as arising in
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of the people and taking form on their
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  Speaker 1: lips is still more definitely and strikingly expressed in two
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  Speaker 1: sentences which led us into the heart of Herder's philosophy
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  Speaker 1: of poetry. Poetry and these those happy days lived in
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  Speaker 1: the ears of the people, on the lips, and in
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  Speaker 1: the harps of living bards. Its sang of history, of
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  Speaker 1: the events of the day, of mysteries, miracles and signs.
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  Speaker 1: It was the flower of a nation's character, language and country,
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  Speaker 1: of its occupations, its prejudices, its passions, its aspirations, and
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  Speaker 1: its soul. In these words, at once comprehensive and vague.
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  Speaker 1: After the manner of Herder, we find ourselves face to
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  Speaker 1: face with that conception, not only a popular song in
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  Speaker 1: all its forms, but with literature as a whole, which
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  Speaker 1: has revolutionized literary study in this century and revitalized it
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  Speaker 1: as well. For Herder was a man of prophetic instinct.
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  Speaker 1: He sometimes felt more clearly than he saw. He divined
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  Speaker 1: where he could not reach results by analysis. He was
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  Speaker 1: often vague, fragmentary, and inconclusive, like all men of his type,
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  Speaker 1: but he had a genius forgetting at the heart of things.
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  Speaker 1: His statements often need qualification, but he is almost always
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  Speaker 1: on the right track. When he says that the great
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  Speaker 1: traditions in which both the memory and the imagination of
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  Speaker 1: a race were engaged, and which were still living in
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  Speaker 1: the mouths of the people quote of themselves, took on
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  Speaker 1: poetic form close quote. He is using language which is
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  Speaker 1: too general to convey a definite impression of method, But
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  Speaker 1: he is probably suggesting the deepest truth with regard to
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  Speaker 1: these popular stories. They actually were of community origin, They
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  Speaker 1: actually were common property. They were given a great variety
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  Speaker 1: of forms by a great number of persons. The forms
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  Speaker 1: which have come down to us are very likely the
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  Speaker 1: survivors of a kind of informal competition which went on
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  Speaker 1: for years at the fireside and at the festivals of
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  Speaker 1: a whole countryside. Baringer, whose Lenore is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most widely known of modern ballads, held the same view
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  Speaker 1: of the origin of popular song, and was even more
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  Speaker 1: definite in his confession of faith than heard her. He
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  Speaker 1: declared in the most uncompromising terms that all real poetry
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  Speaker 1: must have a popular origin. Quote can be and must
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  Speaker 1: be of the people, for that is the seal of
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  Speaker 1: its perfection. Close quote, and he comments on the delight
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  Speaker 1: with which he has listened in village street and home
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  Speaker 1: to unwritten songs, the poetry which finds its way in
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  Speaker 1: quiet rivulets to the remotest peasant home. In like manner,
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  Speaker 1: Helene Vacaresco overheard the songs of the Roumanian people hiding
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  Speaker 1: in the maze to catch the reaping songs, listening as
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  Speaker 1: spinning parties at festivals, at death beds, at taverns, taking
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  Speaker 1: the songs down from the lips of peasant women, fortune tellers, gypsies,
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  Speaker 1: and all manner of humble folk who were the custodians
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  Speaker 1: of this vagrant community verse. We have passed so entirely
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  Speaker 1: out of the song making period, and literature has become
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  Speaker 1: to us so exclusively the words of a professional class,
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  Speaker 1: that we find it difficult to imagine the intellectual and
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  Speaker 1: social conditions which fostered improvisation on a great scale and
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  Speaker 1: trained the ear of great populations to the music of
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  Speaker 1: spoken poetry. It was almost impossible for us to disassociate
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  Speaker 1: literature from writing. There is, still, however, a considerable volume
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  Speaker 1: of unwritten literature in the world, in the form of stories, songs, proverbs,
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  Speaker 1: and pithy phrases, a literature handed down in large part
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  Speaker 1: from earlier times, but still receiving additions from contemporary men
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  Speaker 1: and women. The unwritten literature is to be found, it's
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  Speaker 1: hardly necessary to say, almost exclusively among country people remote
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  Speaker 1: from towns, and whose mental attitude and community feeling reproduce
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  Speaker 1: in a way the conditions under which the English and
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  Speaker 1: Scotch ballads were originally composed. The Romanian peasants sing their
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  Speaker 1: songs upon every occasion of domestic or local interests and
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  Speaker 1: sowing and harvesting, birth, christening, marriage, the burial. These notable
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  Speaker 1: events in the life of the countryside, are all celebrated
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  Speaker 1: by unknown poets, or rather by improvisers, who give definite
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  Speaker 1: formed sentiments, phrases, and words which are on many lips.
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  Speaker 1: The Russian peasant tells his stories as they were told
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  Speaker 1: to him, those heroic epics whose life is believed in
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  Speaker 1: some cases to date back at least a thousand years.
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  Speaker 1: These great popular stories form a kind of sacred inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: bequeathed by one generation to another as a possession of
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  Speaker 1: the memory, and are almost entirely unrelated to the written
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  Speaker 1: literature of the country. Miss Hapgood tells a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: story of a government official stationed on the western shore
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  Speaker 1: of Lake Onega, who became so absorbed in the search
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  Speaker 1: for this literature of the people that he followed singers
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  Speaker 1: and reciters from place to place, eager to learn from
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  Speaker 1: their lips. The most widely known of these four Oak tales.
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  Speaker 1: On such an expedition of discovery, he found himself one
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  Speaker 1: stormy night on an island in the lake. The hut
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  Speaker 1: of refuge was already full of storm bound peasants when
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  Speaker 1: he entered. Having made himself some tea and spread his
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  Speaker 1: blanket in a vacant place, he fell asleep, he was
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  Speaker 1: presently awakened by a murmur of recurring sounds. Sitting up,
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  Speaker 1: he found the group of peasants hanging on the words
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  Speaker 1: of an old man of kindly face, expressive eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: melodious voice, from whose lips flowed a marvelous song. Grave
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  Speaker 1: and gay by turns monotonous and passionate in succession, but
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  Speaker 1: wonderfully fresh, picturesque, and fascinating. The listener soon became aware
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  Speaker 1: that he was hearing for the first time the famous
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  Speaker 1: story of Sadko, the Merchant of Novgorod. It was like
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  Speaker 1: being present at the birth of a piece of literature.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that unwritten songs and stories still exist in
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  Speaker 1: great numbers among remote country folk of our own time,
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  Speaker 1: and that additions are still being made to them, help
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  Speaker 1: us to understand the probable origin of our own popular
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  Speaker 1: ballads and what community authorship may really mean. To put ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: even in thought, in touch with the ballad making period
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  Speaker 1: of English and Scotch history, we must dismiss from our
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  Speaker 1: minds all modern ideas of authorship, all notions of individual
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  Speaker 1: origination and ownership of any form of words. Professor Tenbrink
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  Speaker 1: tells us that in the ballad making age. There was
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  Speaker 1: no production. There was only reproduction. There was a stock
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  Speaker 1: of traditions, memories, experiences held in common by large populations,
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  Speaker 1: in constant use on the lips of numberless persons, told
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  Speaker 1: and retold in many forms, with countless changes, variations, and modifications,
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  Speaker 1: without conscious artistic purpose, with no sense of personal control
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  Speaker 1: or possession, with no constructive aim either in plot or treatment,
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  Speaker 1: no composition the modern sense of the term. Such a
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  Speaker 1: mass of poetic material in the possession of a large
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  Speaker 1: community was in a sense fluid and ran into a
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  Speaker 1: thousand forms, almost without direction or premeditation. Constant use of
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  Speaker 1: such rich material gave a poetic turn of thought and
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  Speaker 1: speech to countless persons who, under other conditions would have
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  Speaker 1: given no sign of the possession of the faculty of imagination.
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  Speaker 1: There was not only the stimulus to the faculty which
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  Speaker 1: sees events and occurrences with the eyes of the imagination,
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  Speaker 1: but there was also constant and familiar use of the
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  Speaker 1: language of poetry. To speak metrically or rhythmically is no
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  Speaker 1: difficult matter if one is in the atmosphere or habit
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  Speaker 1: of verse making, and there is nothing surprising either in
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  Speaker 1: the feats of memory or of improvisation performed by the
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  Speaker 1: minstrels and balladests of the old time. The faculty of
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  Speaker 1: improvising was easily developed and was very generally used by
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  Speaker 1: people of wars all classes. This facility was still possessed
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  Speaker 1: by rural populations, among whom songs are still composed as
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  Speaker 1: they are sung, each member of the company contributing a
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  Speaker 1: new verse or a variation suggested by local conditions of
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  Speaker 1: a well known stanza. When to the possession of a
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  Speaker 1: mass of traditions and stories, and of facility of improvisation
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  Speaker 1: is added the habit of singing and dancing, it's not
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  Speaker 1: difficult to reconstruct in our own thought the conditions under
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  Speaker 1: which popular poetry came into being, nor to understand in
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  Speaker 1: what sense a community can make its own songs. In
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  Speaker 1: the brave days when ballads were made, the rustic peoples
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  Speaker 1: were not mute as they are to day, nor sad
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  Speaker 1: as they have become in so many parts of England.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: They sang and they danced by instinct and as an
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  Speaker 1: expression of social feeling. Originally, the ballads were not only sung,
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  Speaker 1: but they gave measure to the dance. They grew from
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  Speaker 1: mouth to mouth in the very active dancing individual dancers
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  Speaker 1: adding verse to verse, and the frequent refrain coming in
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  Speaker 1: as a kind of chorus. Gesture, and to a certain
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  Speaker 1: extent acting, would naturally accompany so free in general an
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  Speaker 1: expression of community feeling. There was no poet, because all
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  Speaker 1: were poets. To quote Professor Tenbrink once more quote, song
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  Speaker 1: and playing were cultivated by peasants, and even by freedmen
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  Speaker 1: and serfs at beer fest's the harp went from hand
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  Speaker 1: to hand. Herein lies the essential difference between that age
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  Speaker 1: and our own. The result of poetical activity was not
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the property, and was not the production of a single person,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: but of the community. The work of the individual endured
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  Speaker 1: only as long as its delivery lasted. He gained personal
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  Speaker 1: distinction only as a virtuoso. The permanent elements of what
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  Speaker 1: he presented, the material, the ideas, even the style and
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  Speaker 1: the meter, already existed quote. The work of the singer
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  Speaker 1: was only a ripple in the stream of national poetry.
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  Speaker 1: Who can say how much the individual contributed to it,
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  Speaker 1: or where in his poetical recitation memory ceased and creative
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  Speaker 1: impulse began. In any case, the work of the individual
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  Speaker 1: lived on only as the ideal possession of the aggregate
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  Speaker 1: body of the people, and it soon lost the stamp
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  Speaker 1: of originality. In view of such a development of poetry,
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  Speaker 1: we must assume a time when the collective consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: a people or race is paramount in its unity, when
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual life of each is nourished from the same
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: treasury of views and associations, of myths and sagas, when
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: similar interests stir each breast, and the ethical judgment of
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  Speaker 1: all applies itself to the same standard. In such an age,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the form of poetical expression will also be common to all,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: necessarily solemn, earnest and simple. Quote. When the conditions which
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  Speaker 1: produced the popular ballads became clear to the imagination, their
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: depth of rootage not only in the community life, but
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  Speaker 1: in the community love, became also clear. We understand the
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  Speaker 1: charm which these old songs have for us for a
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  Speaker 1: later age, and the spell which they cast upon men
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  Speaker 1: and women who knew the secret of their birth. We
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  Speaker 1: understand why the mistrals of the time, when popular poetry
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  Speaker 1: was in its best estate, were held in such honor.
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  Speaker 1: Why Tellifer sang the song of Roland at the head
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  Speaker 1: of the advancing Normans on the day of hastings, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: why good Bishop Aldheim, when he wanted to get the
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  Speaker 1: ears of his people, stood on the bridge and sang
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  Speaker 1: a ballad. These old songs were the flowering of the
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  Speaker 1: imagination of the people. They drew their life as directly
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: from the general experience, the common memory, the universal feelings,
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  Speaker 1: as did the Greek dramas in those primitive times when
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they were part of rustic festivity in works ship. The
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  Speaker 1: popular ballads have passed away with the conditions which produce them.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Modern poets have in several instances written ballads of striking picturesqueness,
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  Speaker 1: and power. But as unlike the ballad of popular origin,
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  Speaker 1: as the world of to day is unlike the world
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  Speaker 1: in which Chevy Chase was first sung, these modern ballads
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  Speaker 1: are not necessarily better or worse than their predecessors, but
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  Speaker 1: they are necessarily different. Its idle to exalt the wild
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  Speaker 1: flower at the expense of the garden flower. Each has
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  Speaker 1: its fragrance, its beauty, its sentiment, and the world is wide.
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  Speaker 1: In the selection of the ballads which appear in this Foguin,
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  Speaker 1: no attempt has been made to follow a chronological order
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  Speaker 1: or to enforce a rigid principle of selection of any kind.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: The aim has been to bring within modern compass a
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  Speaker 1: collection of these songs of the people which should fairly
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  Speaker 1: represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and
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  Speaker 1: the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse which
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  Speaker 1: is still It is to be feared unfamiliar to a
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  Speaker 1: large number of those to whom it would bring refreshment
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  Speaker 1: and delight. Written by Hamilton Wright maybe end of introduction.
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  Speaker 1: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Chevy Chase of a book of Old English Ballads by
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  Speaker 2: George Wharton Edwards. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 2: fromm chevy Chase. God prosper long our noble king, our
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  Speaker 2: lives and safeties all a woeful hunting once there did
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  Speaker 2: in chevy Chase befall to drive the deer with hound
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  Speaker 2: and horn. Earl Percy took his way. The child may
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  Speaker 2: rue that is unborn the hunting of that day. The
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  Speaker 2: stout Earl of Northumberland, a vow to God, did make
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  Speaker 2: his pleasure in the Scottish woods three summer days to
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  Speaker 2: take the chiefest hearts in chevy chase, to kill and
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  Speaker 2: bear away. These tidings to Earl Douglas came in Scotland
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  Speaker 2: where he lay, who sent Earl Percy present word he
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: would prevent his sport. The English Earl, not fearing that,
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  Speaker 2: did to the woods, resort with fifteen hundred bowmen bold,
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  Speaker 2: all chosen men of might who knew full well in
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  Speaker 2: time of need to aim their shafts aright. The gallant
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: greyhounds swiftly ran to chase the fallow deer. On Monday,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: they began to hunt ere daylight did appear, and long
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  Speaker 2: before high noon they had an hundred fat bucks slain. Then,
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  Speaker 2: having dined, the drovers went to rouse the deer again.
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  Speaker 2: The bowmen mustered on the hills, well able to endure
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  Speaker 2: their backsides, all with special care that day were guarded.
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  Speaker 2: Sure the hounds ran swiftly through the woods the nimble
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  Speaker 2: deer to take that. With their cries the hills and
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  Speaker 2: dales an echo shrill did make Lord Percy too. The
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  Speaker 2: quarry went to view the tender deer. Quoth he Earl
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  Speaker 2: Douglas promis'd this day to meet me here. But if
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  Speaker 2: I thought he would not come, no longer would I
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  Speaker 2: stay with that A brave young gentleman. Thus to the
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  Speaker 2: Earl did say, lo yonder doth Earl Douglas, come his
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  Speaker 2: men in armor, bright full twenty hundred Scottish spears, all
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  Speaker 2: marching in our sight. O men of pleasant Tivydale, fast
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  Speaker 2: by the river Tweed. Oh, ceize your sport, Earl Percy said,
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  Speaker 2: and take your bows with speed, and now with me
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  Speaker 2: my countrymen, your courage forth advance. For never was there
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  Speaker 2: champion yet in Scotland or in France, that ever did
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  Speaker 2: on horseback come. But if my hap it were I
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  Speaker 2: durst encounter man for man with him to break a spear,
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  Speaker 2: Earl Douglas, on his milk white steed, most like a baron,
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  Speaker 2: bold rode foremost of his company, whose armor shone like gold,
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  Speaker 2: show me, said he, whose men you be that hunt
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  Speaker 2: so boldly here that without my consent to chase and
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  Speaker 2: kill my fallow dear. The man that first did answer
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  Speaker 2: make was Noble Percy, he who said, we list not
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  Speaker 2: to declare, nor shew whose men we be? Yet will
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  Speaker 2: ill we spend our dearest blood, thy chiefest heart, to slay.
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  Speaker 2: Then Douglas swore a solemn oath, and thus enrage did say, ere,
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  Speaker 2: thus I will out braved, be one of us, two
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  Speaker 2: shall die. I know thee well an Earl, Thou art,
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  Speaker 2: Lord Percy, so am I, but trust me, Percy. Pity
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  Speaker 2: it were and great offense to kill any of these
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  Speaker 2: our guiltless men, for they have done no ill. Let
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  Speaker 2: thou and I the battle, try and set our men aside.
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  Speaker 2: A cursed be he. Earl Percy said, by whom this
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  Speaker 2: is denied. Then stepped a gallant squire forth Witherington was
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  Speaker 2: his name, who said, I would not have it told
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  Speaker 2: to Henry, our king, for shame that ere my captain
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  Speaker 2: fought on foot and I stood looking on you be
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  Speaker 2: two earls, said Witherington, and I a squire alone. I'll
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  Speaker 2: do the best that do I may, while I have
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  Speaker 2: power to stand, while I have power to wield my sword,
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  Speaker 2: I'll fight with heart and hand. Our English archers bent
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  Speaker 2: their bows. Their hearts were good and true at the
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  Speaker 2: first flight of arrows, sent full four score Scots. They
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  Speaker 2: slew yet bides Earl Douglas on the bent as chieftain
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  Speaker 2: stout and good as valiant captain, all unmoved the shock,
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  Speaker 2: he firmly stood his host. He parted had in three
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  Speaker 2: as leader ware, and tried, and soon his spearmen on
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  Speaker 2: their foes, bear down on every side. Throughout the English
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  Speaker 2: archery they dealt full many a wound. But still our
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  Speaker 2: valiant Englishmen all firmly kept their ground, and throwing straight
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  Speaker 2: their bows away, they grasped their swords so bright and
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  Speaker 2: now sharp blows a heavy shower on shields and helmets.
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  Speaker 2: Light they clos'd full fast on every side. No slackness
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  Speaker 2: there was found, and many a gallant gentleman lay gasping
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. O Christ, it was a grief to see,
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  Speaker 2: and likewise for to hear the cries of men lying
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  Speaker 2: in their gore and scattered here and there. At last
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  Speaker 2: these two stout earls did meet like captains of great might,
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  Speaker 2: like lions would. They laid on load and made a
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  Speaker 2: cruel fight. They fought until they both did sweat with
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  Speaker 2: swords of tempered steel, until the blood like drops of
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  Speaker 2: rain they trickling down did feel yield thee. Lord Percy
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  Speaker 2: Douglas said, in faith, I will THEE bring where thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt high at fancied be by James, our Scottish King,
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  Speaker 2: thy ransom I will freely give, and thus report of
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  Speaker 2: thee thou art the most courageous knight that ever I
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  Speaker 2: did see. No Douglas, quoth Earl Percy, Then thy proffer
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  Speaker 2: I do scorn. I will not yield to any Scot
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  Speaker 2: that ever yet was born. With that There came an arrow,
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  Speaker 2: keen out of an English bow, which struck Earl Douglas
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  Speaker 2: to the heart, a deep and deadly blow. Who never
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  Speaker 2: spake more words than these, fight on my merry men,
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  Speaker 2: all for why my life is at an end, Lord
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  Speaker 2: Percy sees my fall. Then leaving life, Earl Percy took
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  Speaker 2: the dead man by the hand and said, Earl Douglas,
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  Speaker 2: for thy life would I had lost my land, O Christ,
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  Speaker 2: my very heart doth bleed with sorrow for thy sake.
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  Speaker 2: For sure aim more renowned knight Mischance could never take
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  Speaker 2: a knight amongst the Scots there was which saw Earl
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  Speaker 2: Douglas dye who straight in wrath, did vou revenge upon
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Percies. Sir Hugh Mountgomery was he called, who,
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  Speaker 2: with a spear most bright, well mounted on a gallant steed,
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  Speaker 2: ran fiercely through the fight and past the English archers,
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  Speaker 2: all without all dread or fear, and through Earl Percy's body.
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  Speaker 2: Then he thrust his hateful spear with such a vehement
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  Speaker 2: force and might he did his body gore the spear
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: ran through the other side a large cloth yard. And
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  Speaker 2: more so thus did both these nobles dye, whose courage
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: none could stain. An English archer then perceiv'd the noble
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Earl was slain. He had a bow bent in his hand,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: made ave musty tree, an arrow of a cloth yard
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  Speaker 2: long up to the head. Drew he against Sir Hugh Montgomery,
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  Speaker 2: so right the shaft he set the gray goose wing
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  Speaker 2: that was thereon in his heart's blood was wet. This
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  Speaker 2: fight did last from break of day till setting of
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  Speaker 2: the sun, For when they rung the evening bell, the
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  Speaker 2: battle scarce was done. With stout Earl Percy, there was
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  Speaker 2: slain Sir John of Egerton, Sir Robert Radcliffe, and Sir John,
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  Speaker 2: Sir James, that bold Baron, And with Sir George and
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  Speaker 2: stout Sir James, both Knights of good account, good Sir
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Rabby, there was slain, whose prowess did Sir mount
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  Speaker 2: for Witherington needs must I wail as one in doleful dumps,
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  Speaker 2: For when his legs were smitten off, he fought upon
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  Speaker 2: his stumps, And with Earl d Douglas there was slain
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  Speaker 2: Sir Hugh Montgomery, Sir Charles Murray, that from the field
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  Speaker 2: one foot would never flee. Sir Charles Murray of Ratcliff too,
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  Speaker 2: his sister's son. Was he, Sir David Lamb, so well esteemed,
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  Speaker 2: yet saveth could not be And the Lord Maxwell, in
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  Speaker 2: like case did with Earl Douglas dye of twenty hundred
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  Speaker 2: Scottish spears scarce fifty five did fly. Of fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: Englishmen went home, but fifty three the rest were slain
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  Speaker 2: in chevy Chase under the Greenwood tree. Next day did
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  Speaker 2: many widows come their husbands too bewail. They washed their
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  Speaker 2: wounds in Brinish tears, but all would not prevail. Their
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  Speaker 2: bodies bathed in purple blood, they bore with them away.
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  Speaker 2: They kissed them dead a thousand times ere they were
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  Speaker 2: clad in cl This news was brought to Edinburgh, where
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  Speaker 2: Scotland's king did reign. That brave Earl Douglas suddenly was
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  Speaker 2: with an arrow slain o heavy news. King James did say,
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  Speaker 2: Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more
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  Speaker 2: of such account as he like. Tidings to King Henry
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  Speaker 2: came within as short a space that Percy of Northumberland
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  Speaker 2: was slain in chevy Chase. Now God be with him,
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  Speaker 2: said our King sith, it will no better be I
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  Speaker 2: trust I have within my realm five hundred as good
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  Speaker 2: as he. Yet shall not Scot's nor Scotland say, but
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  Speaker 2: I will vengeance take I'll be revenged on them all
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  Speaker 2: for brave Earl Percy's sake. This vow full well the
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  Speaker 2: king performed after et humbledown. In one day, fifty knights
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  Speaker 2: were slain, with lords of great renown, and of the
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  Speaker 2: rest of small account did many thousands die. Thus endeth
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  Speaker 2: the hunting in chevy Chase made by the Earl persaill, God,
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  Speaker 2: save our king and bless this land in plenty joy
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  Speaker 2: and peace, and grant henceforth that foul debate TwixT noble
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  Speaker 2: men may cease end of chevy Chase. This recording is
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  Speaker 2: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Section two of Book of English Ballots by George Edwards
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  Speaker 3: bread f librivostot Org by ribn Notation. King Kathechua and
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  Speaker 3: the begaride I read that once in Africa a princely
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  Speaker 3: word did reign, who had come to name Kefechua as poets,
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  Speaker 3: they did fain from nature's laws. He did decline, for
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  Speaker 3: sure he was not of my mind. He cared not
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  Speaker 3: for womenkind, but did them all disdain. But mark what
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  Speaker 3: happened on a day, as he, out of his window
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  Speaker 3: lay he saw a beggar, all in gray. The witch
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  Speaker 3: did cause his pain. The blinded boy that shoots so
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: trim from heaven down did high. He drew a dart
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: and shot at him in place where he did lie,
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  Speaker 3: which soon did pierce him to the quick. And when
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: he felt the arrow prick, which in his tender heart
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  Speaker 3: did stick, he looketh as he would die. What sudden
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  Speaker 3: chance is this? Quoth he that I to love must
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: subject be, which never thereto would agree. But still did
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  Speaker 3: it defy. Then from the window he did come and
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: laid him on him. A thousand heaps of care did
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  Speaker 3: run within his troubled head. For now he means to
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  Speaker 3: crave her love, And now he seeks which way to
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  Speaker 3: prove how he has fancy might remove, and not this
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  Speaker 3: beggar wed, but cupid had him. So ensnare that this
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: poor beggar must prepare asolve to cure him of his care,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: or else he would be dead. And as he musing,
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  Speaker 3: thus did lie he thought for to devise how he
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  Speaker 3: might have her company. That so did amaze his eyes.
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  Speaker 3: In thee quoth he doth rest my life, for surely
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  Speaker 3: thou shalt be my wife, or else this hand with
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  Speaker 3: bloody knife, the gods shall sure suffice. Then from his
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  Speaker 3: bed he soon arose, and to his palace gate he
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  Speaker 3: goes full. Little. Then this beggar knows when she the
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  Speaker 3: king espies, the gods preserve your majesty. The beggars all
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  Speaker 3: gan cry, vouchsafe, to give your charity, our children's food,
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  Speaker 3: to buy the king to them. His purse did caste,
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  Speaker 3: and they to part. It made great haste. This silly
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  Speaker 3: woman was the last that after them did I the king.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: He called her back again, and unto her he gave
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  Speaker 3: his chain and said, with us, ye shall remain till
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  Speaker 3: such time as we die. For thou quoth he shalt
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  Speaker 3: be my wife and honored for my queen. With THEE
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  Speaker 3: I mean to lead my life, as shortly shall be seen.
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  Speaker 3: Our wedding shall appointed be, and everything in its degree.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, quoth he, and follow me. Thou shalt go
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  Speaker 3: shift thee clean? What is thy name? Fair maid? Quoth
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  Speaker 3: he penelophon, O king, quoth she? With that she made
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: a low courtesy, a trim one, as I ween. Thus,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: hand in hand, along they walk unto the King's palace.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: The king with courtiers come we talk. This burgar doth
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  Speaker 3: embrace the beggar blusheth scarlet red and straight again as
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: pale as lead. But not a word at all, she said,
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: she was in such a maze. At last she spake
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: with trembling voice, and said, O King, I do rejoice
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  Speaker 3: that you will take me for your choice, and my
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: degree so base. And when the wedding day was come,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: the King commanded straight the nobleman, both all and son
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: upon the queen to wait. And she behaved herself that
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: day as if she had never walked the way. She
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: had forgot her gown of gray, which she did wear
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: of late. The proverb old is come to pass the priest,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: when he begins his mass, forgets that ever clerk he was,
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  Speaker 3: he knoweth not his estate. Here you may read cofetua
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  Speaker 3: though long time fancy fed compelled by the blinded boy,
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  Speaker 3: the beggar, for to wed he that did lovers looks
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  Speaker 3: disdain to do the same was glad and fain, or
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: else he would himself have slain in story as we read,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: disdain no wit, o, lady, dear, But pity now thy
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: servant here lest that it hap to thee this year,
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: as to that king it did. And thus they led
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: a quiet life during their princely reign, and in a
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: tomb were buried, both as writers sheureth. The lords there
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: took it grievously. The ladies took it heavily. The commons
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: cried piteously. Their death to them was pain. Their fame
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  Speaker 3: did sound so passingly that it did pierce the starry sky,
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  Speaker 3: and throughout all the world did fly to every prince's
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  Speaker 3: realm end of ballad. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section three of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 4: read for librevokstat Org by Michael Heilgrounds of the Watsonfiles
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  Speaker 4: dot Com on May first, twenty ten. From Cirra Rapidile,
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  Speaker 4: King Leir and his three daughters, King Leir once ruled
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  Speaker 4: in this land with princely power and peace, and had
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  Speaker 4: of things with hearts content, that might his joys increase
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  Speaker 4: amongst those things that nature gave three daughters fair he
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: so princely, seeming beautiful as fairer could not be so.
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  Speaker 4: On a time, it pleased the king a question, thus
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  Speaker 4: to move, which of his daughters to his grace could
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  Speaker 4: shew dearest love, For to my age you bring content,
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  Speaker 4: quoth he? Then let me hear which of you three
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  Speaker 4: is polighted troth the kindest will appear to whom the
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  Speaker 4: eldest Thus began, dear father, mind, quoth she before your face?
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  Speaker 4: To do you good? My blood shall render it to be.
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  Speaker 4: And for your sake, my bleeding heart shall here be
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  Speaker 4: cut in twain. Ere that I see your reverend age,
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  Speaker 4: the smallest griefs stay, and so will I. The second said,
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  Speaker 4: dear Father, for your sake, the worst of all extremities,
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: shall gently undertake and serve your Highness night and day
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  Speaker 4: with diligence and love, that sweet content and quietness dis
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  Speaker 4: comforts may remove. In doing so, Ye glad my soul.
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  Speaker 4: The aged king replied, But what sayst thou my youngest girl,
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  Speaker 4: How is thy love alight? My love, quoth young Cordelia. Then,
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  Speaker 4: which to your grace I owe, shall be the duty
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  Speaker 4: of a child. And that is all I show, and
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  Speaker 4: wilt thou shew no more quoth he than doth thy duty.
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  Speaker 4: Bind I well perceive thy love is small when as
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  Speaker 4: no more I find, henceforth thy banish thee my court.
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  Speaker 4: Thou art no child of mine, nor any part of
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  Speaker 4: this my realm, by favor shall be thine. Thy elder
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  Speaker 4: sister's loves are more than where I can demand, to
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  Speaker 4: whom I equally bestow my kingdom and my land, my
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  Speaker 4: pomple state, and all my goods, that lovingly I may,
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  Speaker 4: with those thy sisters be maintain'd until my dying day.
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  Speaker 4: Thus flattering speeches one renown by these two sisters here
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: the third had causeless banishment, Yet was her love more dear.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: For poor Cordelia patiently went wandering up and down, unhelped,
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  Speaker 4: unpitied gentle maid through many an English town, until at last,
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  Speaker 4: in famous France she gentler fortunes found. Though poor and bare,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: yet she was deemed the fairest on the ground, where
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: when the king her virtues heard and this fair lady scene.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: With full consent of all his court, he made his
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  Speaker 4: wife and queen her father, old King leir this while
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  Speaker 4: with his two daughters stayed forgetful of their promised love.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: Full Soon the same decayed, and living in Queen Reagan's court,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: the eldest of the twain, she took from him his
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  Speaker 4: chiefest means, and most of all his train. For whereas
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: twenty men were wont to wait with bended knee, she
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: gave allowance but to ten, and after scarce three nay one,
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: she thought too much for him, so took she all away,
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  Speaker 4: and hope that in her court, good King, he would
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  Speaker 4: no longer stay. Am I rewarded? Thus quoth he, in
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  Speaker 4: giving all I have unto my children, and to beg
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  Speaker 4: for what I lately gave, I'll go unto my goneril,
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  Speaker 4: my second child, I know will be more kind and pitiful,
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  Speaker 4: and will relieve my woe. For fast he hides them
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: to her court, where, when she heard his moan, returned
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  Speaker 4: him answer that she griev'd that all his means were gone,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: but no way could relieve his wants. Yet, if that
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: he would stay within her kitchen, he should have what
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Scullions gave away. When he had heard, with bitter tears,
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: he made his answer, than in what I did, let
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  Speaker 4: me be made example to all men. I will return again,
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  Speaker 4: quoth he unto my wagan's court. She will not use me.
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: Thus I hope, but in a kinder sort, where when
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: he came she gave command to drive him. Thence away
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: when he was well within her court, she said he
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: would not stay. Then back again to Goneril. The woeful
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  Speaker 4: king did hie that in her kitchen he might have
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: what scullion boys said by, But there of that he
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: was denied, which she had promised late, for once refusing
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: he should not come after to her gait. Thus TwixT
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  Speaker 4: his daughter's for relief, he wandered up and down, being
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: glad to feed on beggar's food, that lately wore a crown,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: and calling to remembrance then his youngest daughter's words that
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: said the duty of a child was all that love affords.
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  Speaker 4: But doubting to repair to her whom he had banished,
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: so grew frantic mad, For in his mind he bore
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  Speaker 4: the wounds of woe, which made him rend his milk,
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  Speaker 4: white locks and tresses from his head, and all with
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: blood distain his cheeks with age and honor spread to
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  Speaker 4: hills and woods and watfrey fonts. He made his hourly
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: moan till hills and woods and senseless things did seem'd
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: to sigh and groan. Even thus possess'd with discontents, he
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: pass'd o'er to France, in hopes from fair Cordelia there
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: to find some gentler chance, most virtuous dame, which when
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: she heard of this her father's grief, as duty bound,
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: she quickly sent him comfort and relief. And by a
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: train of noble peers in brave and gallant sort, she
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: gave in charge he should be brought to Aginappus court,
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: whose royal king, with noble minds so freely gave consent
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: to muster up his knights at arms to fame and courage. Bent,
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: and so to England came with speed to repossess King
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: Leir and drive his daughters from their thrones. By his
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Cordelia dear, where she true hearted noble queen was in
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: the battle stain. Yet he good king in his old
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: days possess'd his crown again. But when he heard Cordelia's death,
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: who died indeed for love of her dear father, in
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: whose cause she did this battle move. He swooning fell
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: upon her breast, from whence he never parted, but on
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: her bosom left his life. That was so truly hearted.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: The lords and nobles, when they saw the end of
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: these events, the other sisters unto death, they doomed by consents,
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  Speaker 4: and being dead, the crowns they left unto the next
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: of kin. Thus have you seen the fall of pride
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: and disobedient sin? End of ballad. This recording is in
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  Speaker 4: the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section four of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 5: read for Librovox dot Org by bridget Tallon fair Rosamond,
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: when as King Henry ruled this land, the second of
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: that name, besides the Queen, he dearly loved, a fair
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: and comely dame. Peerless was her beauty, found her favor,
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: and her face. A sweeter creature in this world could
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: never prince embrace. Her crispered locks, like threads of gold,
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: appeared to each man's sight. Her sparkling eyes, like orient pearls,
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: did cast a heavenly light. The blood within her crystal
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: cheeks did such a color drive as though the lily
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: and the rose for mastership did strive yea Rosamond, Fair Rosamond,
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: her name was called, so to whom our Queen, Dame
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: Elinor was known a deadly foe. The King, therefore, for
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: her defense against the furious Queen at Woodstock, builded such
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: a bower the like was never seen. Most curiously, that
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: bower was built of stone and timber, strong, an under
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: rid and fifty doors did to this bow belong, and
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: they so cunningly contrived with turnings round about, that none
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: but with a clew of thread could enter in or out.
• 53:05
  Speaker 5: And for his love and lady's sake, that was so
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: fair and bright the keeping of this bower he gave
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  Speaker 5: unto a valiant knight. But fortune that doth often frown
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: where she before did smile the King's delight and lady's
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: joy full. Soon she did beguile. For why the King's
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: ungracious son, whom he did high advance against his father,
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: raised wars within the realm of France. But yet before
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: our comely King the english Land forsook of Rosamond, his
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: lady fair, his farewells. Thus he took my Rosamond, my
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: only rose that pleasest best mine eye the fairest flower
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  Speaker 5: in all the world, to feed my phantasie, the flower
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  Speaker 5: of mine affected heart, whose sweetness doth excel my royal
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: rose a thousand times. I bid thee now farewell, for
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: I must leave my fairest flower, my sweetest rose, a
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: space and cross the seas to famous France, proud rebelers
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: to Abase. But yet my rose, be sure thou shalt
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  Speaker 5: my coming shortly see, and in my heart when hence
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: I am, I'll bear my rose with me. When Rosamond,
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  Speaker 5: that lady bright, did hear the king say so, the
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: sorrow of her grieved heart, her outward looks did show,
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: and from her clear and crystal eyes the tears gushed
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: out apace, which like the silver pearlor dew ran down
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: her comely face. Her lips erst like the coral red,
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: did wax, both worn and pale. And for the sorrow
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: she conceived her vital spirits fail, and falling down all
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: in a swoon. Before King Henry's face, full oft tea
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: in his princely arms, her body did embrace, and twenty times,
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: with watery eyes, he kissed her tender cheek, until he
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: had reviv'd again her senses mild and meek. Why grieves
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  Speaker 5: my rose, my sweetest rose, The king did often say,
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  Speaker 5: because quoth she to bloody wars, my lord must part away.
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  Speaker 5: But since your grace on foreign coasts amongst your foes
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: unkind must go to huzzard life and limb, why should
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  Speaker 5: I stay behind?
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: Nay?
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: Rather, let me like a page your sword and target.
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  Speaker 5: Bear that on my breast. The blows may light, which
• 55:38
  Speaker 5: would offend you there. Or let me in your royal tent.
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: Prepare your bed at night and with sweet baths, refresh
• 55:46
  Speaker 5: your grace at your return from fight, so I your
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: presence may enjoy no toil I will refuse, But wanting
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: you my life is death, Nay death, I'd rather choose
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: content thyself, my dearest love. Thy rest at home shall
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: be in England's sweet and pleasant isle. For travel fits,
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: not thee fair ladies brook, not bloody wars, soft peace,
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: their sex delights, not rugged camps, but courtly bows, gay feasts,
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  Speaker 5: not cruel fights. My rose shall safely here, abide with
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  Speaker 5: music past the day, whilst I among the piercing pikes
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  Speaker 5: my foes seek far away. My rose shall shine in
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: pearl and gold whilst I'm in armor, dight, gay galliards.
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  Speaker 5: Here my love shall dance, whilst I my foes go fight.
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: And you, Sir Thomas, whom I trust to be my
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: love's defense, be careful of my gallant rose when I imparted. Hence,
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: and at their parting well, they might in heart be
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: grieved sore. After that day, fair Rosamond, the king did
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  Speaker 5: see no more, For when his grace had past the
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: seas and into France was gone with envious heart, Queen
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: Elinor to Woodstock came Anon, and forth she calls this
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: trusty knight in an unhappy hour, who with his clue
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: of twine and thread, came from this famous bower. And
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: when they had wounded him the Queen this thread did
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: get and went where Lady Rosamond was like an angel set.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: But when the Queen, with steadfast eye beheld her beauteous face,
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: she was amazed in her mind at her exceeding grace.
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: Cast off from thee those robes, she said, that rich
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: and costly bee, and drink thou up this deadly draft
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: which I have brought to thee. Then presently upon her knees,
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: sweet Rosamond did fall, and pardon of the queen she
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: craved for her offenses. All take pity on my youthful years.
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: Fair Rosamond did cry, and let me not with poisoned
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  Speaker 5: strong enforced be to die. I will renounce my sinful life,
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  Speaker 5: and in some cloise to bide, or else be banished,
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: if you please to range the world so wide, and
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: for the fault which I have done, though I was
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  Speaker 5: forced there too, preserve my life and punish me as
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: you think meat to do. And with these words her
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: lily hands she wrung full often there and down along
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: her lovely face did trickle many a tear. But nothing
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: could this furious queen therewith appeased bee the cup of
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: deadly poisoned strong. As she knelt on her knee, she
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: gave this comely dame to drink, who took it in
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: her hand, and from her bended near rows, and on
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: her feet did stand, and casting up her eyes to
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: heaven she did for mercy, call and drinking up the
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: poison strong. Her life she lost withal. And when that death,
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: through every limb, had showed its greatest spite, her chiefest
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: foes did plain confess she was a glorious wight her body.
• 59:11
  Speaker 5: Then they did in tomb when life was fled away
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  Speaker 5: at Godstone near to Oxford Town, as may be seen
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  Speaker 5: this day end of ballad. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 5: public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Section five of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
• 59:38
  Speaker 6: read for LibriVox dot Org by Paddy Cunningham. Philida and
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  Speaker 6: Corradon in the merry month of May, in a morn
• 59:47
  Speaker 6: by break of day, with a troop of damsels playing forth,
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: I yode forsooth a maying, when Anon by a woodside,
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: where that May was in his pride, I espied all
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  Speaker 6: alone Philida and Coridon much ado. There was God WoT
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: he would love, and she would not. She said, never
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  Speaker 6: man was true. He says none was false to you.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: He said he had loved her long. She says love
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: should have no wrong. Coridon would kiss her. Then she says,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: maids must kiss no men till they do for good
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  Speaker 6: and all. When she made the shepherds call all the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: heavens to witness truth, never loved a truer youth. Then
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: with many a pretty oath, yea and nay, and faith
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: and troth such as sealy, shepherds use when they will
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  Speaker 6: not love abuse love that had been long deluded, was
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: with kisses sweet concluded, and Philida, with Garland's gay, was
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  Speaker 6: made the lady of the May. End of ballad. This
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  Speaker 6: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Section six Book of English Ballads by George Edwards, read
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  Speaker 7: for LibriVox dot Org by Stephen Reed Fair Margaret and
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  Speaker 7: sweet William, as it fell out on a long summer's
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 7: day to love us they sat on a hill. They
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  Speaker 7: sat together that long summer's day and could not talk
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  Speaker 7: their fill I see no harm by you, Margaret, and
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  Speaker 7: you see none by me. Before to morrow, at eight
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  Speaker 7: of the clock, a rich wedding, you shall see. Fair
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  Speaker 7: Margaret sat in her bower, wind combing her yellow hair.
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  Speaker 7: There she spied Sweet William and his bride as they
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  Speaker 7: were riding near. Then down she laid her ivory comb
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  Speaker 7: and braided her hair in twain. She went alive out
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  Speaker 7: of her bower, but ne'er came alive in it again.
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  Speaker 7: When day was gone and night was come, and all
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  Speaker 7: men fast asleep, then came the spirit of fair mind Margaret,
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  Speaker 7: and stood at William's feet. Are you awake, sweet William?
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  Speaker 4: She said?
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  Speaker 7: Or Sweet William, are you asleep? God give you joy
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  Speaker 7: of your gay? Bride bed, and me of my winding sheet.
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  Speaker 7: When day was come and night was gone, and all
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 7: men waked from sleep, Sweet William to his lady, said,
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  Speaker 7: my dear, I have cause to weep. I dreamt a dream,
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  Speaker 7: my dear lady. Such dreams are never good. I dreamt
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  Speaker 7: my bower was full of red wine, and my bride
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  Speaker 7: bed full of blood. Such dreams, Such dreams, my honored sir,
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  Speaker 7: they never do prove good to dream thy bower was
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  Speaker 7: full of red wine, and thy bride bed full of blood.
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  Speaker 7: He call'd up his merry men, all by one, by two,
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  Speaker 7: and by three, saying all away to fair Margaret's bower,
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  Speaker 7: by the leave of my lady. And when he came
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  Speaker 7: to Fair Margaret's bower, he knocked at the ring, and
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  Speaker 7: who so ready as her seven brethren to let sweet
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  Speaker 7: William in. Then he turn'd up the covering sheet, pray,
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  Speaker 7: let me see the dead. Methinks she looks all pale
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  Speaker 7: and wane. She hath lotht her cherry red. I'll do
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  Speaker 7: more for thee Margaret than any of thy kin, for
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  Speaker 7: I will kiss thy pale wan lips thou a smile.
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  Speaker 7: I cannot win with that bespake the seven brethren, making
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 7: most piteous moan. You may go kiss your jolly brown bride,
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  Speaker 7: and let our sister alone. If I do kiss my
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: jolly brown bride, I do, But what is right? I
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: ne'er made a vow to yonder poor corpse by day,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: nor yet by night. Deal on, Deal on my merry. Men,
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  Speaker 7: All deal on your cake and your wine, for whatever
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: is dealt at her funeral to day shall be dealt
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  Speaker 7: to morrow at mine fair. When Margaret died to day,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: to day, sweet William died the morrow fair, Margaret died
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  Speaker 7: for pure true love. Sweet William died for sorrow. Margaret
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  Speaker 7: was buried in the lower chancel, and William in the higher.
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  Speaker 7: Out of her breast there sprang a rose, and out
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: of his a briar. They grew till they grew unto
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: the church top, and then they could grow no higher,
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  Speaker 7: And there they tied in a true lover's knot, which
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 7: made all the people admire. Then came the clerk of
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 7: the parish, and you the truth shall hear, and by
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 7: misfortune cut them down, or they had now been there.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 7: Session six of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards.
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  Speaker 7: Read for LibriVox dot org by Stephen Reid and of Ballad.
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  Speaker 7: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Section seven of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards
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  Speaker 6: read for Brivox dot Org by Paddy Cunningham. Anne and
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 6: Water Annan, Water's wading deep and my love Annie's wondrous Bonnie.
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  Speaker 6: I will keep my tryst to night. An when the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 6: heart O lovely Annie, he's loopin' on his bonny gray.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: He raid the right gate and the ready for ah,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: the storm he wadna stay for seekin o his bonny lady. An.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: He has ridden o'er field and fell through murin moss
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 6: and stones and mire. His spurs a steel were stare
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 6: to bide and free her four feet flew the fire,
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  Speaker 6: my bonny gray. No play your part, gin ye be
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  Speaker 6: the steed that wins my dearie Wi corn An hay
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  Speaker 6: Ye's be fed for aye An Never spur sail make
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  Speaker 6: you weary. The gray was a mare, an a right
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  Speaker 6: good mare. But when she won the annun water shakuldnah.
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  Speaker 6: He found the ford that night had a thousand merks
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  Speaker 6: been wadded at her. Oh, boatman, boatman, put off your boat,
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  Speaker 6: Put off your boat for good'n money, but for all
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  Speaker 6: the good an fair Scotland, he dared na take him
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  Speaker 6: through to Annie. Oh, I was sworn sae late yestereen,
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  Speaker 6: not by a single eighth but money. I'll cross the
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  Speaker 6: drumly stream to night, or never could I face my honey.
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  Speaker 6: The sight was stay, and the bottom deep fray bank
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  Speaker 6: to bray the water pouring the bonny gray mare. She
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  Speaker 6: swot for fear, for she heard the water kelt be roaring.
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  Speaker 6: He spurred her forth into the flood.
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  Speaker 4: I watch.
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  Speaker 6: She swam both strong and steady, but the stream was broad.
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  Speaker 6: Her strength did fail, and he never saw his bonny lady. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: woe betide the Frish sing wand and woe betide the
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: bush of briar that bent and brake into his hand
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  Speaker 6: when strength of man and horse did tire an. Woe
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  Speaker 6: betide ye ann a water this night. Ye are a
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  Speaker 6: drumley river. But o'er THEE will build a bridge that
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  Speaker 6: ye na maar true love may sever. This recording is
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  Speaker 6: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 8: Section eight of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 8: read for LibriVox dot Org by Ruth Golding, the bailiff's
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  Speaker 8: daughter of Islington, there was a youth, and a well
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  Speaker 8: beloved youth, and he was a squire's son. He loved
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  Speaker 8: the Bailiff's daughter Dear, that lived in Islington. Yet she
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  Speaker 8: was coy and would not believe that he did love her.
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  Speaker 8: So no, nor at any time would she any countenance
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  Speaker 8: to him show. But when his friends did understand his
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  Speaker 8: fond and foolish mind, they sent him up to fair
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  Speaker 8: London an apprentice for to bind. And when he had
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  Speaker 8: been seven long years and never his love could see,
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  Speaker 8: many a tear have I shed for her sake, when
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  Speaker 8: she little thought of me. Then all the maids of
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  Speaker 8: Islington went forth to sport and play, all but the
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  Speaker 8: Bailiff's daughter Dear, she secretly stole away. She pulled off
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  Speaker 8: her gown of green and put on ragged attire, and
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  Speaker 8: too fair London she would go her true love to inquire.
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  Speaker 8: And as she went along the high road, the weather
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  Speaker 8: being hot and dry, she sat her down upon a
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  Speaker 8: green bank, and her true love came riding by. She
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  Speaker 8: started up with a color so red, catching hold of
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  Speaker 8: his bridle rein one penny, one penny, kind sir, she said,
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  Speaker 8: will ease me of much pain. Before I give you
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  Speaker 8: one penny, sweetheart. Pray tell me where you were born.
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  Speaker 8: That is Rington, kind, Sir, said she, where I have
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  Speaker 8: had many a scorn. I prithee, sweetheart. Then tell to me, Oh,
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  Speaker 8: tell me whether you know the bailiff's daughter of Islington.
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  Speaker 8: She is dead, sir long ago. If she be dead,
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  Speaker 8: then take my horse, my saddlent bridle. Also, for I
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  Speaker 8: will into some far country where no man shall me know.
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  Speaker 8: Oh stay, Oh, stay thou goodly youth. She standeth by
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  Speaker 8: thy side. She is here alive, She is not dead,
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  Speaker 8: and ready to be thy bride. Oh, farewell grief and
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  Speaker 8: welcome joy ten thousand times. Therefore, for now I have
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  Speaker 8: found mine own true love, whom I thought I should
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  Speaker 8: never see more. End of ballad. This recording is in
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  Speaker 8: the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Section nine of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards
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  Speaker 3: read for librivostat all by Raven Notasha, Barbara Allan's cruelty
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  Speaker 3: All in the merry month of May, when green buds
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  Speaker 3: they were swelling, Young Jemmy Grove, on his death bed,
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  Speaker 3: lay for love of Barbara Allan. He sent his man
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  Speaker 3: unto her, then to the town where she was dwelling
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  Speaker 3: o haste and come to my master, dear, if your
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  Speaker 3: name be Barbara Allan, slowly, slowly raised she up, and
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  Speaker 3: she came where he was lying. And when she drew
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  Speaker 3: the curtain, by says, young man, I think you're dying.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's I am sick, and very very sick. And
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  Speaker 3: it's all for Barbara Allen. Oh the better for me.
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  Speaker 3: Ye's never be, though your heart's blood worth spilling. Oh
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  Speaker 3: dinner you mind, young man, she says. When the red
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  Speaker 3: wine you were filling that ye made the house go
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  Speaker 3: round and round, and ye slighted Barbara Allen. He turned
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  Speaker 3: his face onto the wall, and death was within, dealing adieu, adieu,
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  Speaker 3: my dear Friendole be kind to Barbara Allen. As she
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  Speaker 3: was walking o'er the fields, she heard the dead bell knelling,
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  Speaker 3: and every jow the dead bell gave it cried a
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  Speaker 3: woe to Barbara Allen. Oh, mother, mother, make my bed
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  Speaker 3: to lay me down in sorrow. My love has died
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  Speaker 3: for me to day. I'll die for him to morrow.
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  Speaker 3: End of ballad. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: Section ten of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards
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  Speaker 9: read for librivostar Org by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio.
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  Speaker 9: The Douglas Tragedy. Rise up, Raise up, no, Lord Douglas,
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  Speaker 9: she says, and put on your armor so bright. Sweet
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  Speaker 9: William will hail Lady Margaret away before that it be light.
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  Speaker 9: Raise up, rise up my seven bold sons, and put
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  Speaker 9: on your arm or so bright, and take better care
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  Speaker 9: of your younger sister, for your eldest away the last slight,
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  Speaker 9: He smarter'd her on a milk white steed, and himself
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  Speaker 9: on a d apple gray with a buglet horn hung
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  Speaker 9: down by his side, and lightly they rode away. Lord
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  Speaker 9: William lactre his left shoulder to see what he could see,
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  Speaker 9: and there he spied her seven brethren mold come riding
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  Speaker 9: o'er the lee let down right down, Lady Margaret, he said,
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  Speaker 9: and hold my steed in your hand until that against
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  Speaker 9: your seven breth in bold and your father, I make
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  Speaker 9: a stand. She held his steed in her milk white
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  Speaker 9: hand and never shed one tear until that she saw
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  Speaker 9: her seven brethren fall, and her father hurr'd fighting, who
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  Speaker 9: lov'd her so dear, Oh, hold your hand, Lord William,
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  Speaker 9: she said, for the storks they are wond'rous sir, through lovers,
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  Speaker 9: I can get mary a in, but a father I
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  Speaker 9: can never get mare. Oh she's taying out her handkerchief.
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  Speaker 9: It was of a holland sae fine, and as she
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  Speaker 9: tighted her father's bloody wounds that were rather than the wine.
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  Speaker 9: Oh choose, O, choose lady Margaret. He said, Oh, whether
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  Speaker 9: will ye gang or abide? I'll gang. I'll gang, Lord William,
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  Speaker 9: she said, for you have left me nay over guide.
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  Speaker 9: He lifted her on a milk white steed, and himself
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  Speaker 9: on a dapple gray with a buglet horn hung down
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  Speaker 9: by his side, And slowly they math rade away. Oh
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  Speaker 9: they raid on and on they raid and haw by
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  Speaker 9: the light o the moon, until they came to yon
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  Speaker 9: one water, and there they light a doom. They'd light
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  Speaker 9: a doon to take a drink that spring that ran
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  Speaker 9: sack clear and down the stream, r and his good
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  Speaker 9: heart's blood and sair. She gan to fear. Hold up,
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  Speaker 9: Hold up, Lord William, she says, for I fear that
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  Speaker 9: you are stain tis nahin. But the shadow up his
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  Speaker 9: scarlet cloak that shines in the water seplain. Oh they
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  Speaker 9: raid on and on they raid and haw by the
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  Speaker 9: right o the moon until they came to his mother's
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  Speaker 9: hall door, and there they light a doon. Get up,
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  Speaker 9: Get up, lady mother, he says, get up, and let
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  Speaker 9: me in. Get up, Get up, Lady mother, he says,
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  Speaker 9: for this night to my fire, lady I've win. Oh
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  Speaker 9: make me bed, Lady mother, he says, Oh, make it
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  Speaker 9: brad and deep, and lay Lady Margaret close at my back,
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  Speaker 9: and the somber I will sleep. Lord William was dead
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  Speaker 9: lang ere a midnight, Lady Margaret, lang ere day, And
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  Speaker 9: all true lovers that go together, may they have mere
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  Speaker 9: luck than they. Lord William was buried in Saint Mary's Kirk.
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  Speaker 9: Lady Margaret in Mary's Squire. Out of the lady's grave
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  Speaker 9: grew upon ear red Rose, and out of the knights
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  Speaker 9: a briar, and they twam met, and they twap let
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  Speaker 9: and fain they wad be near, and o'er the world
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  Speaker 9: might ken the rest weel they were twa lovers deer,
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  Speaker 9: but by any the black Douglas and Wow, but he
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  Speaker 9: was rough, for he pull'd up the bonny briar and
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  Speaker 9: flant in Saint Mary's Loch and a ballad. This recording
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  Speaker 9: is in the public domain section eleven of Book of
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  Speaker 9: English Ballads by George Edwards, read for LibriVox dot Org
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  Speaker 9: by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio. Young Waters about you,
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  Speaker 9: when the wind blew cool and the round tables began. Ah,
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  Speaker 9: there is come to our King's court, Marny, a well
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  Speaker 9: favored man. The Queen look'd o'er the castle war beheld
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  Speaker 9: bath Dale and Doon, And then she saw Young Waters
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  Speaker 9: come riding to the tone. His footmen they did win
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  Speaker 9: before his horsemen rade behind in mantle of the burning
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  Speaker 9: gowd did keep him free. The wind golden grave'd his
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  Speaker 9: horse before, and Siller shod behind the horse Young Waters
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  Speaker 9: that raid upon was fleeter than the wind. Out. Then
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  Speaker 9: speak the wily lord unto the Queen tete, Oh, tell me,
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  Speaker 9: was the fairest face ride in the company. I've seen, Lord,
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  Speaker 9: And I've seen laird and knights of high degree, But
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  Speaker 9: a fairer face than Young Waters mine iron did never
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  Speaker 9: see oat and speke the jealous king, and anne angry
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  Speaker 9: man was he?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: If he had been twice as fair, thee might have
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  Speaker 9: accepted me. Ay, are neither learn nor lord, she says,
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  Speaker 9: But the king that was the crown There is not
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  Speaker 9: a knight in fair Scotland. But to thee mon bow
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  Speaker 9: down for ah that she could do or say, appeas'd
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  Speaker 9: he one may be but for the words which she
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  Speaker 9: had said, Young Waters, ye mon dee. They hate heen
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  Speaker 9: young waters, and put fetters to his feet. They had
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  Speaker 9: tain young Waters and thrown him in dungeon deep haft
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  Speaker 9: thy heaven in through Stirling Town in the wind, but
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  Speaker 9: on the wheat. But I ne'er aid through Stelling Town
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  Speaker 9: with fetters at me feet aft. Have I ridden through
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  Speaker 9: Stelling Town in the wind, but under rain, but a
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  Speaker 9: near a through Stealing Town, near to return again. They
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  Speaker 9: at turned to the heading hill, his young son in
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  Speaker 9: his cradle, and they hattened to the heading hill his horse,
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  Speaker 9: but and his saddle. They attained to the heading hill
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  Speaker 9: his lady fair to see. And for the words the
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  Speaker 9: queen had spoke, Young Waters, he dead d d of ballad.
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  Speaker 9: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: Section twelve of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards.
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  Speaker 4: Rereadful abrivox dot org by Michael Elgans of the Watson
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  Speaker 4: Files dot com on May third, twenty ten from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Florenfield,
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  Speaker 4: King Jamie hath made of keep it well. If ye
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  Speaker 4: may that he will be at lovely London, upon Saint
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  Speaker 4: James his day, upon Saint James his day, at noon,
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  Speaker 4: at fair London, will I be, and all the lords
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  Speaker 4: in merry Scotland, they shall dine there with me. March out,
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  Speaker 4: March out, my merry men, of high or low degree,
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  Speaker 4: I'll wear the crown in London Town, and that you
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  Speaker 4: soon shall be. Then bespake, good Queen Margaret, the tears
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  Speaker 4: fell from her eye. Leave off these walls, most noble King,
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  Speaker 4: keep your fidelity. The water runs swift and wondrous deep
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  Speaker 4: from bottom unto brime. My brother, Henry hath Men, good enough.
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  Speaker 4: England is hard to whine away, quoth he with this
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  Speaker 4: silly fool imprisoned fast, let her lie, for she is
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  Speaker 4: come of the English blood, and for these words she
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  Speaker 4: shall die. With that bespake Lord Thomas Howard, the Queen's Chamberlain.
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  Speaker 4: That day, if that you put Queen Margaret to death,
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  Speaker 4: Scotland shall rule it alway. Then in arrayed King Jamie
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  Speaker 4: did say away with this foolish mom he shall be
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  Speaker 4: hanged and the other be burnt. So soon as I
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  Speaker 4: come home at Flordenfield. The Scots came in, which made
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  Speaker 4: our english Men fain. At Bramstone Green, this battel was seen.
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  Speaker 4: There was King Jamie slain. His body never could be
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  Speaker 4: found when he was overthrown, and he that wore Fair
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  Speaker 4: Scotland's crowned that day could not be known. Then presently
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  Speaker 4: the scot did flee their cannons, they left behind their engines.
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  Speaker 4: Gay were one all away. Our soldiers did bate them blind.
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  Speaker 4: To tell you plain, twelve thousand were slain. That to
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  Speaker 4: the fight did stand, and many prisoners took that day
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  Speaker 4: the best in all Scotland. That day made many a
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  Speaker 4: fatherless child, and many a widow poor, and many a
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  Speaker 4: Scottish gay lad sate weeping in his boar jack with
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  Speaker 4: a feather was lapped all in leather. His boastings were
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  Speaker 4: all in vain. He had such a chance with a
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  Speaker 4: new Morris dance. He never went home again. This was
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  Speaker 4: written to adapt to the Ballad to the seventeenth century.
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  Speaker 4: Now heaven we lud that nevermore such bidding shall come
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  Speaker 4: to hand. Our King by oath is king of both
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  Speaker 4: England and Fair Scotland, and of ballad. This recording is
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  Speaker 4: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section thirteen of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards
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  Speaker 5: read for Librovox dot Org by Bridget Tallon Helen of
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  Speaker 5: kirk Connall, I would I were where Helen lies night
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  Speaker 5: and day on me. She cries, Oh that I were
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  Speaker 5: where Helen lies on fair kirk Connall. Lee cursed beat
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  Speaker 5: a heart that thought the thought, and cursed the hand
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  Speaker 5: that fired the shot. When in my arms burd Helen
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  Speaker 5: dropped and died to succor me. Oh think now, but
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  Speaker 5: my heart was sair. When my love dropped and spacked
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  Speaker 5: no mare, I laid her down with mikely care on
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  Speaker 5: fair kirk Connolly. As I went down the water side,
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  Speaker 5: None but my foe to be my guide, Nane but
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  Speaker 5: my foe to be my guide. On fair kirk Connolly,
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  Speaker 5: I lighted down my sword to draw. I hacked him
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  Speaker 5: in pieces small. I hacked him in pieces small, for
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  Speaker 5: her sake, that died for me. Oh, Helen, fair beyond compare.
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  Speaker 5: I'll make a garland of thy hair, shall bind my
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  Speaker 5: heart for ever, ma'are until the day I die. Oh
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  Speaker 5: that I were where Helen lies night and day on me.
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  Speaker 5: She cries, out of my bed she bids me rise,
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  Speaker 5: says haste, and come to me, Oh Helen fair, Oh
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  Speaker 5: Helen chaste. If I were with thee, I were blest
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  Speaker 5: where thou lies low and takes thy rest on fair
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  Speaker 5: Kirk Connally, I word my grave were growing green a
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  Speaker 5: winding sheet drawn O mine En, and I in Helen's arms,
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  Speaker 5: lying on fair Kirk Connolly. I would I were where
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  Speaker 5: Helen lies night and day on me. She cries, and
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  Speaker 5: I am weary of the skies, since my love died
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  Speaker 5: for me. End of ballad. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 5: public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Section fourteen Book of English Ballads by George Edwards, read
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  Speaker 10: for LibriVox dot Org by Elizabeth Sorenka. Robin Hood and
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  Speaker 10: Alan Adale. Come listen to me, you gallant, so free,
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  Speaker 10: all you that love mirth, for to hear, and I
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  Speaker 10: will tell you of a bold outlaw that lived in Nottinghamshire,
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  Speaker 10: as Robin Hood in the forest, stood all under the
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  Speaker 10: greenwood tree. There he was aware of a brave young man,
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  Speaker 10: as fine as fine might be. The youngster was clad
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  Speaker 10: in scarlet, red and scarlet, fine and gay, and he
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  Speaker 10: did free git over the plain and chaunted round a
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  Speaker 10: lay as Robin Hood next morning stood amongst the leafs,
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  Speaker 10: so gay there did he spy the same young man
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  Speaker 10: come drooping along the way. The scarlet he wore the
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  Speaker 10: day before it was clean cast away, and at every
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  Speaker 10: step he fetched a sigh alas and well a day.
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  Speaker 10: Then stepped forth brave little John and Midge, the miller's son,
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  Speaker 10: which made the young man bend his bow. When as
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  Speaker 10: he see them come, stand off, stand off, the young
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  Speaker 10: man said, what tis your will with me? You must
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  Speaker 10: come before our master straight under yon greenwood tree. And
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  Speaker 10: when he came Bold Robin before Robin asked him courteously, Oh,
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  Speaker 10: hast thou any money to spare for my merry men
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  Speaker 10: and me? I have no money, the young man said,
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  Speaker 10: but five shillings and a ring, and that I have
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  Speaker 10: kept the seven long years to have at my wedding yesterday,
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  Speaker 10: I should have married a maid, but she was from
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  Speaker 10: me tame and chosen to be an old knight's delight,
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  Speaker 10: whereby my poor heart is slain. What is thy name,
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  Speaker 10: then said Robin Hood. Come tell me without any fail
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  Speaker 10: By the faith of my body, then said the young
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  Speaker 10: man my name, It is allan Adale. What wilt thou
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  Speaker 10: give me? Said robin Hood in ready gold or fee
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  Speaker 10: to help thee to thy true love again, and to
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  Speaker 10: liver her unto thee. I have no money, then, quoth
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  Speaker 10: the young man, no ready gold nor fee. But I
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  Speaker 10: swear upon a book thy true servant, for to be
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  Speaker 10: how many miles is it to thy true love? Come
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  Speaker 10: tell me without guile, by the faith of my body,
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  Speaker 10: then said the young man, it is but five little mile. Then,
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  Speaker 10: robin he hasted over the plain. He did neither stint
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  Speaker 10: nor lin until he came unto the church where allan
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  Speaker 10: should keep his wedding. What hast thou here? The bishop
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  Speaker 10: then said, I prithee, Now tell unto me. I am
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  Speaker 10: a bold harper, quoth robin Hood, and the best in
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  Speaker 10: the north country. O welcome, O welcome the bishop he
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  Speaker 10: said that music best pleases me. You shall have no music,
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  Speaker 10: quoth robin Hood, till the bride and bridegroom. I see
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  Speaker 10: with that came in a wealthy knight, which was both
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  Speaker 10: grave and old, and after him a finnechan last did
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  Speaker 10: shine like the glistering gold. This is not a fit match,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 10: quoth robin Hood, that you do seem to make here.
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  Speaker 10: For since we are come into the church. The bride
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  Speaker 10: shall choose her own, dear. Then robin Hood put his
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 10: horn to his mouth and blew blasts two and three.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 10: When four and twenty bow men Bold came leaping over
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 10: the lee. And when they came into the churchyard, marching
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 10: all in a row, the first man was al Nadale
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  Speaker 10: to give Bold Robin his bow. This is thy true love, Robin,
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  Speaker 10: He said, young Allan, as I hear say, and you
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  Speaker 10: shall be married this same time before we depart away.
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  Speaker 10: That shall not be the bishop, he cried, for thy
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 10: word shall not stand. They shall be three times asked
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 10: in the church, as the law is of our land.
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  Speaker 10: Robin Hood pulled off the bishop's coat and put it
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 10: upon little John. By the faith of my body, then
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  Speaker 10: Robin said, this cloth doth make thee a man. When
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  Speaker 10: Little John went into the choir, then people began to laugh.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 10: He asked them seven times into church, lest three times
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 10: should not be enough. Who gives me this maid? Said
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 10: little John? Quoth robin Hood, that do I, and he
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  Speaker 10: that takes her from allan Adale, full dearly he shall
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  Speaker 10: her buy. And then, having ended this merry wedding, the
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  Speaker 10: bride looked like a queen, and so they returned to
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  Speaker 10: the merry greenwood amongst the leaf so green. End of ballad.
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  Speaker 10: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Section fifteen of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 6: read for LibriVox dot Org by Paddy Cunningham Jim thirteenth,
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  Speaker 6: two thousand ten. Robin Hood and Ghee of Gisburne. When
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  Speaker 6: Shawl's bin sheen and Shrad's full fair and leaves both
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  Speaker 6: large and long, it is merry walking in the fair
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  Speaker 6: forest to hear the small bird's song. The wood wheels
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  Speaker 6: sang and would not cease sitting upon the spray so
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  Speaker 6: loud he wakened Robin Hood in the greenwood where he
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  Speaker 6: lay now by my fay, said, Jolly Robin, a sweeveen
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  Speaker 6: I had this night. I dreamt me of two weighty
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  Speaker 6: yeomen that fast with me can fight, methought they did
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  Speaker 6: me beat and bind An took my beau me fro.
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  Speaker 6: If I be Robin alive in this land, I'll be
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  Speaker 6: rookin on them too. Sweeven's are swift, master, quoth John,
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  Speaker 6: as the wind that blows o'er the hill. For if
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  Speaker 6: it be never so loud this night tomorrow, it may
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  Speaker 6: be still, busk ye bone, ye may merry men all
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  Speaker 6: and John shall go with me, for I'll go seek
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  Speaker 6: yond white Yeoman in greenwood where they be. Then they
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  Speaker 6: cast on their gowns of green, and took their bows,
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  Speaker 6: each one, and they away to the green forest, a
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  Speaker 6: shooting forth or gone until they came to the merry greenwood,
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  Speaker 6: where they had gladys to be. There were they ware
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  Speaker 6: of a white yeoman. His body leaned to a tree.
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  Speaker 6: A sword and a dagger he wore by his side
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  Speaker 6: of many a man the bane, and he was clad
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  Speaker 6: in his cappel, hide, top and tail and main stand.
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  Speaker 6: Ye still, master, quoth little John, under this tree so green,
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  Speaker 6: And I will go to yond white Yeoman to know
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  Speaker 6: what he doth mean. Ah, John, by me, thou settest
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  Speaker 6: no store, and that I fairly find, how oft send
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  Speaker 6: I my men before and tarry myself behind. It is
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  Speaker 6: no cunning a knave to ken and a man'd but
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  Speaker 6: hear him speak. And it were not for bursting of
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  Speaker 6: my bow, John, I thy head would break as often
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  Speaker 6: words they breeden bale. So they parted, Robin and John,
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  Speaker 6: and John is gone to Barnesdale the gates he knoweth
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  Speaker 6: each one. But when he came to Barnesdale, great heaviness
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  Speaker 6: there he hayd, for he found two of his own
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  Speaker 6: fell ways were slain, both in a slade and scarlet.
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  Speaker 6: He was flyin' afoot fast over stock and stone, for
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  Speaker 6: the sheriff, with seven score men fast after him, is gone.
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  Speaker 6: One shoot. Now I will shoot, quoth John, with Christ
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  Speaker 6: his might and main, I'll make yond fellow that lies
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  Speaker 6: so fast to stop he shall be fain. Then John
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  Speaker 6: bent up his long bennd bow and feddled him to
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  Speaker 6: shoot the bow made of tender bow, and fell down.
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  Speaker 4: To his foot.
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  Speaker 6: Woe worth, woe worth thee wicked wood that ere thou
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  Speaker 6: grew on a tree. For now this day thou art
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  Speaker 6: my bail, my boot, when thou should be his shoot.
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  Speaker 6: It was but loosely shot, Yet flew not the arrow
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  Speaker 6: in vain, for it met one of the sheriff's men.
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  Speaker 6: Good William a Trent was slain. It had been better
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  Speaker 6: of William a Trent to have been abed with sorrow
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  Speaker 6: than to be that day in the green wood slade
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  Speaker 6: to meet with little John's arrow. But as it is said,
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  Speaker 6: when men be met, five can do more than three
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  Speaker 6: the sheriff hath taken little John and bound him fast
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  Speaker 6: to a tree. Thou shalt be drawn by dale and
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  Speaker 6: down and hanged high on a hill. But thou mayst
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  Speaker 6: fail of thy purpose, quoth John. If it be Christ
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  Speaker 6: His will, Let us leave talking of little John, and
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  Speaker 6: think of Robin Hood. How he is gone to the
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  Speaker 6: White Yeomen, where under the leaves he stood. Good morrow,
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  Speaker 6: good fellow, said Robin. So fair, good morrow, good fellow.
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  Speaker 6: Quoth he methinks by this bow thou bears in thy
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  Speaker 6: hand a good archer. Thou shouldst be. I am wilful
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  Speaker 6: of my way, quoth the Yeomen, and of my morning tide.
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  Speaker 6: I'll lead thee through the wood, said Robin, good fellow.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be thy guide. I seek an outlaw, the stranger, said,
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  Speaker 6: men call him Robin Hood. Rather i'd meet with that
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  Speaker 6: proud outlaw than forty pounds. So good. Now come with me,
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  Speaker 6: thou white Yeoman, and Robin thou soon shalt see. But
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  Speaker 6: first let us some pastime find under the green wood tree.
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  Speaker 6: First let us some mastery make among the woods, so
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  Speaker 6: even we may chance to meet with Robin Hood here
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  Speaker 6: at some unset stephen they cut them down, two summer
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  Speaker 6: shrugs that grew both under a breer, and set them
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  Speaker 6: threescoreth rood in twain to shoot the pricks. I fear
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  Speaker 6: lead on, good fellow, quoth Robin Hood. Lead on, I
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  Speaker 6: do bid thee nay by my faith, good fellow, he said,
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  Speaker 6: my leader, thou shalt be. The first time Robin shot
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  Speaker 6: at the prick, he missed, but an inch it fro
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  Speaker 6: the Yeoman. He was an archer good, but he could
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  Speaker 6: never shoot. So the second shoot had the weight Yeomen.
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  Speaker 6: He shot within the garland. But Robin he shot far
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  Speaker 6: better than he, for he clave the good prick wand
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  Speaker 6: a blessing upon thy heart, he said, good fellow, thy
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  Speaker 6: shooting is good for an thy heart be as good
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  Speaker 6: as thy hand. Thou wert better than Robin Hood. Now
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  Speaker 6: tell me thy name, good fellow, said he. Under the
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  Speaker 6: leaves of thine, nay by my faith, quoth Bold Robin,
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  Speaker 6: till thou hath told me thine, I dwell by dale,
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  Speaker 6: and down, quoth he and Robin to take I'm sworn,
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  Speaker 6: And when I am call'd by my right name, I
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  Speaker 6: am gee of good gisborn. My dwelling is in this
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  Speaker 6: wood says Robin, by thee I set right nought. I
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  Speaker 6: am Robin Hood of Barnsdale, whom thou so long hast sought.
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  Speaker 6: He that had neither been kith nor kin, might have
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  Speaker 6: seen a full fair sight to see how together these
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  Speaker 6: yeomen went with blades both brown and bright. To see
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  Speaker 6: how these yeomen together they fought two hours of a
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  Speaker 6: summer's day. Yet neither Robin Hood nor Sir Gee them
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  Speaker 6: fettled to fly away. Robin was reachless on a route
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  Speaker 6: and stumbled at that tide, and Ghee was quick and
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  Speaker 6: nimble with all, and hit him o'er the left side. Ah,
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  Speaker 6: dear lady, said Robin Hood, though thou art, but mother,
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  Speaker 6: and may I think it was never a man's destiny
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  Speaker 6: to die before his day. Robin thought on our lady dear,
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  Speaker 6: and soon leapt up again. And straighty came with a
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  Speaker 6: backward stroke, and he Sir Gee hath slain. He took
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  Speaker 6: Sir Ghe's head by the hair and stuck it upon
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 6: his bow's end. Thou hast been a traitor all thy life.
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  Speaker 6: Which thing must have an end? Robin pulled forth an
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  Speaker 6: Irish knife and nicked Sir Ghi in the face that
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  Speaker 6: he was never on woman born could tell whose head
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  Speaker 6: it was, says, lie there lie there now, Sir Ghe,
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  Speaker 6: and with me be not wroth. If thou have had
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  Speaker 6: the worst strokes at my hand, thou shalt have the
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  Speaker 6: better clothe. Robin did off his gown of green, and
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  Speaker 6: on Sir Ghe did throw, and he put on that
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  Speaker 6: capel hide that clad him topped to tow the bow,
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  Speaker 6: the arrows and little horn. Now with me I will bear,
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  Speaker 6: for I will away to Barnsdale to see how my
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 6: men do fair. Robin Hood said GE's horn to his mouth,
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  Speaker 6: and a loud blast in it did blow. That be
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 6: heard the Sheriff of Nottingham, as he leaned under a
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  Speaker 6: low hearken. Hearken, said the Sheriff. I here now, tiding's
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 6: good for Yonder. I hear Sir Gez's horn blow, and
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  Speaker 6: he hath slain Robin Hood. Yonder. I hear Sir Ghee's
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 6: horn blow. It blows so well in tide, and yonder
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 6: comes that wady yeoman clad in his capel hide. Come hither,
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  Speaker 6: Come hither thou good sir Gee. Ask what thou wilt
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  Speaker 6: of me? Oh, I will none of thy gold, said Robin,
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  Speaker 6: nor I will none of thy fee. But now I
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 6: have slain the master, he says, let me go strike
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  Speaker 6: the knave, for this is all the reward I ask,
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  Speaker 6: Nor no other will I have thou art a madman,
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 6: said the sheriff. Thou shouldst have had a knight's fee.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: But seeing thy asking hath been so bad, well granted
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 6: it shall be. When little John heard his master speak,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: well knew he it was his Stephen. Now shall I
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 6: be loosed, quoth little John, with Christ his might in heaven,
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  Speaker 6: Fast Robin? He hide him to Little John, he thought,
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  Speaker 6: to loose him. Believe the Sheriff and all his company
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  Speaker 6: fast after him. Can drive stand aback, stand aback, said Robin,
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  Speaker 6: Why draw you me so near? It was never the
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  Speaker 6: use in our country one's shrift another should hear. But
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 6: Robin pulled forth an Irish knife, and loosed John hand
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  Speaker 6: and foot, and gave him sir Geese bow into his hand,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 6: and bade it be his boot. Then John he took
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 6: Gui's bow in his hand, his bolts and arrows each one.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 6: When the sheriff saw little John bend his bow, he
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 6: fettled him to be gone towards his house in Nottingham Town.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 6: He fled full fast away, and so did all the company.
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  Speaker 6: Not one behind would stay. But he could neither run
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 6: so fast, nor away so fast could ride. But little John,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 6: with an arrow so broad, he shot him into the
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  Speaker 6: back side. End of this recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 11: Section sixteen of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards
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  Speaker 11: Readfulibrivox dot Org by Peter Yearsley. Robin Hood's death and burial.
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  Speaker 11: When Robin Hood and Little John down Adown, adown Adown
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  Speaker 11: went to a yon banker Broom, said Robin Hood to
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 11: little John. We have shot for many a pound hay
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 11: down a down, a down, but I am not able
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  Speaker 11: to shoot one shot more. My arrows will not flee.
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  Speaker 11: But I have a cousin lives down below. Please God,
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 11: she will bleed me. Now. Robin is to fair Kirkley,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 11: gone as fast as he can win. But before he
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 11: came there, as we do here, he was taken very ill.
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  Speaker 11: And when then that he came to fair Kirkley Hall,
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  Speaker 11: he knocked all at the ring, but none was so
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  Speaker 11: ready as his cousin herself, for to let bold robin in,
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  Speaker 11: will you please to sit down cousin Robin, she said,
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  Speaker 11: and drink some beer with me. No I will neither
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  Speaker 11: eat nor drink till I am bloodied by thee.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 11: I have a room, cousin Robin, she said, which you
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  Speaker 11: did never see, And if you pleased to walk therein
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  Speaker 11: you blooded by me shall be. She took him by
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 11: the lily white hand and led him to a private room,
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  Speaker 11: and there she blooded bold Robin hood whilst one drop
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  Speaker 11: of blood would run. She blooded him in the vein
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  Speaker 11: of the arm, and locked him up in the room.
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  Speaker 11: There did he bleed all the livelong day until the
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  Speaker 11: next day. At noon. He then bethought him of a
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  Speaker 11: casement door, thinking for to be gone. He was so
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 11: weak he could not leap, nor he could not get down.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 11: He then bethought him of his bugle horn, which hung
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 11: low down to his knee. He set his horn unto
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 11: his mouth and blew out weak blasts. Three. Then little John,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 11: when hearing him as he sat under the tree, I
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  Speaker 11: fear my master is near dead. He blows so wearily.
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  Speaker 11: Then little John to fair Kirklee, is gone as fast
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 11: as he can.
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  Speaker 1: Three.
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  Speaker 11: But when he came to Kirklee Hall, he broke locks
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 11: two or three until he came Bold Robin too. Then
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 11: he fell on his knee. A boon, A boon, cries
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 11: little John Master, I beg of thee. What is that boon,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 11: quoth robin Hood, Little John.
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  Speaker 1: Thou begg'st of me.
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  Speaker 11: It is to burn fair Kirkley Hall and all their nunnery.
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  Speaker 11: Now nay, now nay, quoth robin Hood that boon. I'll
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 11: not grant thee. I never hurt woman in all my life,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 11: nor man in woman's company. I never hurt fair maid
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  Speaker 11: in all my time, Nor at my end shall it be?
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  Speaker 11: But give me my bent bow in my hand, and
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 11: a broad arrow I'll let flee. And where this arrow
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 11: is taken up, there shall my grave digged be. Lay
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 11: me a green sod under my head, and another at
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 11: my feet, and lay my bent bow by my side,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 11: which was my music sweet, And make my grave of
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 11: gravel and green, which is most right. And meet let
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  Speaker 11: me have length and breadth enough, with a green sod
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 11: under my head, that they may say, when I am dead,
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  Speaker 11: here lies Bold robin Hood. These words they readily promis'd him,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 11: which did Bold Robin please. And there they buried Bold
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 11: robin Hood, near to the Fair Kirklees end of ballad.
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  Speaker 11: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: Section seventeen a book of English ballads by George Edwards
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 9: read for librivostadorg by Leonard Wilson of Springfield, Ohio. The
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  Speaker 9: wa Corby's as I was walkin all alane, I hearb'd
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 9: twa Corby's making the main the tain unto the thither
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 9: did say where shall we gang and dine the day
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 9: down beside your old fieldyke, I WoT there lies an
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 9: you slain night, and naybody kins that he lies there
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 9: but his hawk, his hound, and his lady fair. His
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 9: hound is to the hunting, gain is hat to fetch
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 9: the wild fowl hame his lady's taen. Another mate, say
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 9: we be meck our dinners. Sweet Oh, We'll sit on
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 9: his white house bain, and I'll pike out his bunny
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 9: blue wine way lock o his gowden hair. We'll think
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 9: our nest when it blaws bare Monia ain for him
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 9: Max Main, but nine shall ken where he is, gain
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 9: o'er his pains when they are bar the wind shall
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 9: blow for ever mail Ember ballad. This recording is in
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 9: the public domain.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 12: Section eighteen of a book of olding Balance by George
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 12: Worth Edwards Wallet while I'll peep on it Scottish song
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 12: where Philippo boxter Age by Jamie on fuster Dune twenty
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 12: ten in Manchester, England. Or Wally Wallet up the bank
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 12: and Wally Walla down the bray, and Wally Waller you
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 12: on Burnside, where I and my love were one again.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 12: I let my back unto and Mike. I thought it
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 12: was a trusty tree, but fust it bowed and saying
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 12: it bragg saying my true love did lightly mean, Oh
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 12: Wally Wally, But jin love be Bonnie a little time
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 12: while it is new, But when it's old and works
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 12: of cold and fades a weller moaning jew or Worthfire.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 12: Should I buzz my head and Worthfile, should I curb
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 12: my hair? My true love has me for sog and
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 12: says he'll never love me. Mare'll be my bed. The
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 12: sheets shall here be pressed by me and aunt as well,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 12: so it'll be my drink. Since my true love has
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 12: forsaken me. My team has wind, when wild will blow
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 12: and shape the green leaves off a tree, Oh gen death,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 12: when both will come far of my life, I am weary.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 12: Tis not the frost that pleases fell nor blowing snares
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 12: incomeingtis not sick cold what makes me cry? But my
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 12: love's heart grown cold to me when me came in
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 12: my Glasgow town. We were only side to see my
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 12: love with clad in black velvet, and I myself in chramercy.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 12: But had I was before I kissed that love had
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 12: been so able to win. I had locked my heart
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 12: in my case of gold and pinned it with a
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 12: silver pin. And oh, but my young baby born had
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 12: set upon the nurse's knee. And I myself are dead
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 12: and gon and a green grass growing over me. And
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 12: the ballad Faring is in the public.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: Domain, Section nineteen, a book of English ballads by George Edwards,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: read for Librovox dot Org by Mike Harris. The nut
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: Brown Maid. Be it right to wrong? These men among
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: hon women do complain affirming this, how that it is
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: a labor spent in vain to love the muella for
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: never a delah they love a man again, for let
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: a man do what he can their favor to attain.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: Yet if a new do them pursue their first true lover,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: then labreth for naught, for from her thought he is
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: a banished man. I say not nay, but that all
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: day is both written said that woman's faith is as
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: who saith, all utterly decayed, but nevertheless right. Good witness
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: in this case might be laid that they love true
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: and continue record the nut brown maid, which, when her
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: love came her to prove to her to make his moan,
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: would not depart, for in her heart she loved but
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: him alone. Then between us let us discuss what was
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: all the manner between them.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: Too.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: We will also tell all the pain and fear it
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: that she was in. Now I begin to see that
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: ye may answer. Wherefore, all ye that present be, I
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: pray you give an ear. I am the knight. I
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: come by night as secret as I can, saying, alas
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: thus standeth the case, I am a banished man. And
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: she would say, and I your will, for to fulfill
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: in this will not refuse trusting to shew in wordes
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: few that men have an ill use to their own
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: shame women to blame and causelest them accuse. Therefore to
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: you I answer now all women, to excuse mine own heart.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: Dear with you that cheer, I pray you tell anown,
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: For in my heart of all mankind I love, but
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: you alone, he says, it standeth so I deed is
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: so do where of great harm shall grow? My destiny
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: is for to die a shameful death I trow, or
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: else to flee the one must be none other way
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: I no but to withdraw as an outlaw, and take
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: me to my bow. Wherefore ado my own heart true?
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: None other reed I can, for I must the greenwood
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: go alone? A banished man? O Lord, what is this
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: world displiss? That changeth as the moon my summer's day? Unlust?
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: He may is darked before the noon. I hear you say, farewell, nay, nay,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: we depart not so soon? Why say ye so?
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 9: Whid?
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: Or will ye go alas? What have ye done? All
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: my welfare to sorrow and care should change if ye
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: were gone? For in my mind of all mankind I
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: love but you alone I can believe it. Shall you grieve,
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: and somewhat you distrain, But afterward your pain is hard
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: Within a day or twain shall sooner slake, and ye
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: shall take comfort to you again. Why should you ought?
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: For to make thought your labor were in vain? And
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: thus I do and pray you to as heartily as
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: I can, For I must the green wood go alone
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: a banished man? Now scytheth that ye have shewed to
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: me the secret of your mind. I shall be plain
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: to you again like as ye shall me. Fine sith it,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: so that ye will go I woln not leave behind.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: Shall never be said the nut brown maid was to
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: her love unkind, make you ready? For so am I,
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: although it were anknone. For in my mind of all mankind,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: I love but you alone. Yet I you read to
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: take good heed that men shall think and say, of
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: young and old, it shall be told that ye be
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: gone away your wanton will, for to fulfill in greenwood
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: ye to play, and that ye might, from your delight
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: no longer make delay, rather than ye should thus for
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: me be called an ill woman. Yet would I to
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: the greenwood go alone, a banished man, though it be
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: sung for old and young, that I should be to blame?
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: Theirs be the charge that speak so large and hurting
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: of my name. For I will prove that faithful love
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: it is devoid of shame in your distress and heaviness
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: to part with you the same. And sure, although what
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: do not so true lovers? Are they none? For in
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: my mind of all mankind, I love but you alone.
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: I counsel you. Remember how it is no maiden's law,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: nothing to doubt, but to ren out too would with
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: an outlaw. For you must there in your hand bear
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: a bow ready to draw, and as a thief, thus
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: must you live ever in dread and awe, whereby to
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: you great harm might fall. Yet had I lever, then
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: that I had to the Greenwood go alone a banished man,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: I think not nay, But as ye say, it is
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: no maiden's lore. But love may make me for your sake,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: as I have said before, to come on foot, to
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: hunt and shoot, to get us meet in store, for
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: so that I your company may have. I ask no
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: more from which part it maketh my heart as cold
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: as any stone. For in my mind, of all mankind,
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: I love but you alone for an outlaw. This is
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: the law that men him taken bind without pity, hanged
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: to be, and waver with the wind. If I had need,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: as God forbid, what rescue could ye find? Forsooth I
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: trow you and your bow, for fear would draw behind,
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: and no marvel for a little avail were in your counsel.
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: Then wherefore I will the green wood go alone, a
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: banished man. Right well know ye that women be but feeble,
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: For to fight no woman heeded is indeed to be
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: bold as a knight. Yet in each fear, if that
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: ye were with enemies day and night, I would withstand
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: with bow in hand, to grieve them as I might,
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: and you to save as women have from death, men
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: many a one. For in my mind, of all mankind,
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: I love, but you alone, Yet take good heed, For
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: ever I dread that you could not sustain the thorny ways,
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: the deep vales, the snow, the frost, the rain, the cold,
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: the heat. For dry or wet, we must lodge on
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: the plain, and us above none other roof but a
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: brake bush or twain, which soon should grieve you, I believe,
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: And ye would gladly then that I had to the
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: greenwood go alone a banished man, sith, I have here
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: been parting near with you of joy and bliss. I
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: must all's part of your woe endure as reason is.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 1: Yet am I sure of one pleasure? And shortly it
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: is this, that where ye be meseemeth pard, I could
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: not fare amiss without more speech. I you beseech that
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: we were soon a gone, For in my mind of
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: all mankind, I love but you alone. If you go thinder,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: ye must consider, when ye have lust to dine, there
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: shall no meat be ye for you get, nor drink beer,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: ale nor wine, no sheets clean to lie between, made
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: of thread and twine, none other house but leaves and
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: boughs to cover your head. And mine, O mine heart sweet,
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: This evil diet should make you pale and wan. Wherefore
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: I will to the green woods go alone, a banished
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: man among the wild deer, such an archer, as men
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: say that ye be, ne may not fail of good
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: vital Where is so great plenty and water clear of
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: the river shall be full sweet to me, with which
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: in hell I shall write well, endure as ye shall see.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: And o'er we go, a better too can provide anon.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: For in my mind of all mankind, I love but
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: you alone. Lo Yet before ye must do more, For
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: ye will go with me as cut your hair up
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: by your ear, Ye are kirtle by the knee, with
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: bow in hand, for to withstand your enemies if need be.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: And this same night before daylight to woodward, will I flee.
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  Speaker 1: If that ye will all this fulfill, do it shortly
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  Speaker 1: as ye can else will I to the greenwood go
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: alone a banish man. I shall as now do more
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: for you than longeth to woman head, to short my hair,
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: a boat, a bear to shoot in time of need, O,
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: my sweet mother, before all other. For you I have
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: most treat. But now adieu I must ensue where fortune
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: doth me lead. All this make ye now let us
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 1: flee the day cometh fast upon. For in my mind
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: of all mankind, I love but you alone, nay, nay not,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: So ye shall not go, And I shall tell ye
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: why your appetite is to be light of love thy
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: well a spy, For like as ye have said to me,
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: in likewise, hardly ye would answer whosoever it were in
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: way of company. It's set of old, soon hot, soon cold,
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: And so is a woman. Wherefore I to the wood,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: will go alone, a banished man. If ye take heed,
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: it is no need such words to say to me,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: For off ye prayed and long assayed? Or I you
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: loved pardey, And though that I of ancestry a baron's daughter, be,
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: yet have you proved how I you loved a squire
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: of low degree? And ever shall whatso befall to die?
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: Therefore anone for in my mind of all mankind I
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: love but you alone, a baron's child to be beguiled.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: It were a cursed deed to be fellow for an outlaw,
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: Almighty God forbid. Yet better were the poor squire alone
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: to forest yeed, then ye shall say another day that
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: by my cursed deed ye were betrayed. Wherefore good made.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: The best reed that I can is I that to
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: the green wood go alone a banished man, whatever befall,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: I never shall of this thing you upbraid. But if
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: ye go and leave me so, then have ye me betrayed.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: Remember you well, ahow that ye dwelle. For if ye,
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: as YE said, be so unkind to leave behind your
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: love the nut brown maid, trust me truly that I
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: shall die soon after you be gone. For in my
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: mind of all mankind, I love but you alone. If
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: that she went, ye should repent, for in the forest.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: Now I have perveyed me of a maid whom I
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: love more than you, another fairer than ever ye were.
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: I dare it will avow, and you both each should
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: be wroth with other, as I trow. If it were
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: mine ease to live in peace, So will I if
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: I can Wherefore I to the wood will go alone
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: a banished man. Though in the wood I understood ye
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: had a paramour. All this may not remove my thought,
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: but that I shall be your and she shall find
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: me soft and kind and courteous every hour, glad to
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: fulfill all that she will command me to my power.
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: For had ye lo and hundred mau of them, I
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: would be one. For in my mind, of all mankind
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: I love, but you alone mine own dear love, I
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: see the proof that you be kind and true of
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: maid and wife. In all my life. The best that
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: ever I knew, be merry and glad, be no more sad.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: The case is changed new, For it were ruth that
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: for your truth ye should have cause to rue. Be
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: not dismayed. Whatsoever I said to you when I began,
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: I will not to the green wood go. I am
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: no banished man. These tidings be more glad to me
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: than to be made a queen. If I were sure
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: you should endure. But it is often seen when men
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: will break promise. They speak the word is on the spleen,
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: ye shape some while me to beguile and steal from me.
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: I ween, then were the case worse than it was,
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: and I more woebegone. For in my mind of all
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: mankind I love but you alone. Ye shall not need
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: further to treat. I will not disparage you. God forbid
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: sith ye descend, oh so great a lineat now understand
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: to Westmoreland, which is mine heritage. I will you bring,
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: and with a ring by way of marriage, I will
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: you take, and lady make as shortly as I can.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: Thus have you won an earliest son, and not a
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: banished man. And the author says, ye may see that
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: women be in love, meek, kind and stable. Let never
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: man reprove them then, or call them variable, but rather
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: pray God that we may to them be comfortable, which
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: some time proveth such as He loveth, if they be charitable.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: For seth men would be that women should be meek
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: to them each one much more ought they to God
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: obey and serve but him alone. End of the Ballad
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: of the Nut Brown Maid. This recording is in the
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: public domain.
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  Speaker 13: Section twenty of Books of English Ballads by George Edwards
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  Speaker 13: read for LibriVox dot Org. By Glinda the False Lover,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 13: a fair maid sat in her bower door, wringing her
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 13: lily hands and by it came a sprightly youth, fast
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 13: trippin'er the strands, where gang ye, young john, she says sorrily,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 13: in the day it guards me. Think by your fast trip,
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 13: your journey's far away. He turned about with surly look
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 13: and said, what's that to THEE. I'm going to see
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 13: a lovely maid more fairer far than ye. Now, how
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 13: ye played me this false love in summer mid the flowers,
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 13: I shall repay ye back again in winter mid the showers.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 13: But again, dear love, and again, dear love, will ye
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 13: not turn again? For as ye look to other women,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 13: I shall do to other men. Make your choice, o
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 13: whom you please, For I my choice will have. I've
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 13: chosen a maid more fair than thee. I've never will deceive.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 13: But she's killed up clothing fine, And after him gad
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 13: she but ay, he said, ye'll turn again, nay fart
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 13: again with me, But again, dear love, and again, dear love,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 13: will ye never love me again? Alas for lovin you
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 13: so well, and you na me again? The first in
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 13: town that they came, till he bought her brooch and ring.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 13: But ay, he bade her turn again, and gang nay,
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 13: farther with him, But again, dear love, and again, dear love,
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 13: will ye never love me again? Alas for lovin you
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 13: so well, and youn mae again. The next in town
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 13: that they came till he bought her muff and gloves.
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 13: But ay he bade her turn again and choose some
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 13: other loves. But again, dear love, and again, dear love,
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 13: will ye never love me again? Alas for lovin you
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 13: so well, and youn me again. The next in town
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 13: that they came till his heart it grew marefine, and
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 13: he was deep in love with her, and she was
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 13: our again. The next in town that they came till
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 13: he bought her a wedding gown and made her lady
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 13: of his, and bowers in sweet Berwicktown. End of ballad.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 13: This recording is in the public domain.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: Section twenty one of Book of English Ballads by George
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 2: Edwards read for LibriVox dot Org by Susan from The
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 2: Mermaid two yon foul stream that near the sea hides
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 2: money and elf and plume, and rives wi fearful din
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 2: the stains a witless Nike did comb the day shines
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 2: cleared far in his gain ware shells are silver bright fishes,
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 2: while loopin' ah around an sparklin to the light. When
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 2: as he laved sounds calm, say sweet frae ilka rock
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 2: an tree, the brief was out twas him. It doomed
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 2: the mermaid's face to see fray neath a rock sun sun.
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 2: She rose and stately on. She swam stopped e the
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 2: midst and becked, and sang to him to stretch his
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: hand gowon glazed. The yellow lynx that round her neck
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 2: should twine. Her e'en were o'er the sky blue. Her
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 2: lips did mock the wine. The smile upon her bonny
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 2: cheek was sweeter than the bee. Her voice excelled. The
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 2: birdie sang upon the birchen tree, Say Cathy, howthy did
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 2: she look? And miegel had she fleech'd out shut his
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 2: hand alas alas fast in the swirl he screeched. The
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 2: mermaid luke. Her brief was gain and Kelpie's blast was
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: blowin fool o. She dup'd neer rays again, for deep
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 2: deep was the fowen a boon the stream. His wrath
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  Speaker 2: was seen, while ock's tail lang at gloamin that e'en
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  Speaker 2: was coarse. The blast blue horse ere Lang. The waves
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  Speaker 2: were foremen. End of ballad. This recording is in the
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  Speaker 2: public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Section twenty two of Book of English Ballads by George
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  Speaker 7: Edwards read for LibriVox dot Org by Stephen Reed The
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  Speaker 7: Battle of Otterburn the first fight. It fell about the
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  Speaker 7: Lamba's tide, when husbands win their hay. The doey Douglas
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  Speaker 7: bound him to ride into England to take a prey,
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  Speaker 7: the Earl of Fife. Without in strife. He bound him
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  Speaker 7: over Solway. The great would ever together ride that race,
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  Speaker 7: they may rue for aye over Ottercap Hill. They came
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  Speaker 7: in and so down by Rotherly Cragg, upon green Layton.
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  Speaker 7: They lighted down stryand many a stag, and boldly brent Northumberland,
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  Speaker 7: and harried many a town. They did our Englishman great
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  Speaker 7: wrong to battle that were not born. They spake a
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  Speaker 7: burn upon the bent of comfort that was not called,
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  Speaker 7: and said, we have Brent Northumberland, We have all well
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  Speaker 7: in hold. Now we have harried all Bramboroughshire. All the
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  Speaker 7: wealth in the world have we I read We ride
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  Speaker 7: to Newcastle. So still and stall were thee upon the morrow.
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  Speaker 7: When it was day. The standards shone full bright, to
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  Speaker 7: the Newcastle. They took the way, and thither they came
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  Speaker 7: full right. Sir Henry Percy lay at the newcastle, I
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  Speaker 7: tell you without in dread. He has been a march
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  Speaker 7: man all his days and kept Berwick upon tweed to
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  Speaker 7: the newcastle. When they came the Scots, they cried on high,
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  Speaker 7: Sir Harry Percy, an thou bist within, come to the
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  Speaker 7: field and fight, for we have Brent Northumberland, thy heritage
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  Speaker 7: good and right, and sin my lodging I have take
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  Speaker 7: with my brand jumb'd many a knight. Sir Harry Percy
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  Speaker 7: came to the walls the sky host for to see,
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  Speaker 7: and thou hast Brent Northumberland full sore. It rueth me
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  Speaker 7: if thou hast harried all Bramboroughshire, thou hast done me
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  Speaker 7: great envy for thy trespast thou hast me done, and
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  Speaker 7: the one of us shall die. Where shall I bide
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  Speaker 7: thee said the Douglas. Or where wilt thou come to
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  Speaker 7: me at Otterburn in the highway, thou mayest thou well lodged,
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  Speaker 7: be the roe full reckless. There she runs to make
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  Speaker 7: thee game and glee the falcon and the pheasant both
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  Speaker 7: among the halties on he There mayest thou have thy
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  Speaker 7: wealth at will well lodged, There mayest thou be. It
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  Speaker 7: shall not be long ere I come thee till said
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  Speaker 7: Sir Harry Percy. There shall I bide thee, said the Douglas.
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  Speaker 7: By the faith of my body. Whither shall I come,
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  Speaker 7: said Sir Harry Percy. My troth I plight to thee
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  Speaker 7: A pipe of wine. He gave them over the walls Forsoth,
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  Speaker 7: as I you say, there he made the Douglas drink,
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  Speaker 7: and all his host that day, the Douglas turned him
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  Speaker 7: homeward again Forsoth without a nigh. He took his lodging
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  Speaker 7: at Otterbourne upon a Wednesday, and there his fight is
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  Speaker 7: stand'd down, his getting more and less, And soon he
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  Speaker 7: warned his men to go and get their goldings dress.
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  Speaker 7: A Scottish knight hooved upon the bent a watch. I
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  Speaker 7: dare well say, so was he where on the noble Percy.
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  Speaker 7: In the dawning of the day, he pricked to his
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  Speaker 7: pavilion door as fast as he might run. Awaken Douglas
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  Speaker 7: cried the knight for his love that sits in throne.
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  Speaker 7: Awaken Douglas cried the knight, thou mayest waken with wine.
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  Speaker 7: Yonder have I spied the proud Percy and seven standards
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  Speaker 7: with him? Nay, by my truth, the Douglas said, but
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  Speaker 7: is but a feigned tale. He durst not look on
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  Speaker 7: my broad banner for all England. So hail was I
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  Speaker 7: knocked yesterday at the newcastle that stands so fair on Tyne.
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  Speaker 7: For all the men the Percy had, he could not
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  Speaker 7: gare me once to dine. He stepped out at his
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  Speaker 7: pavilion door to look, and it were less array you, lordlings,
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  Speaker 7: one and all. For here begins no peace. The Earl
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  Speaker 7: of menteith thou art my emmy, the Ford, I give
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  Speaker 7: to thee, the Earl of Huntley Court and Keen. He
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  Speaker 7: shall with thee be the Lord of Buchan in armor bright.
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  Speaker 7: On the other hand he shall be Lord Johnston and
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  Speaker 7: Lord Maxwell. The two shall be with me Swindon Fairfield.
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  Speaker 7: Upon your pride to battle, make you bone, Sir Davie Scott,
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  Speaker 7: Sir Walter Steward, Sir John of anger Stone. The second fight,
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  Speaker 7: the Percy came before his host, which ever was a
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  Speaker 7: gentle knight. Upon the Douglas lou did he cry, I
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  Speaker 7: will hold that I have height for thou hast Brent Northumberland,
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  Speaker 7: and done me great envy for this traspass. Thou hast
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  Speaker 7: me done, the one of us shall die. The Douglas
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  Speaker 7: answered him again with great words upon he and said,
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  Speaker 7: I have twenty against thy one. Behold, and thou mayst
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  Speaker 7: see with that. The Percy was grieved sore. Forsooth as
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  Speaker 7: I you say, he lighted down upon his foot and
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  Speaker 7: shot his horse clean away. Every man saw that he
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 7: did so that Rayal was ever en route. Every man
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  Speaker 7: shot his horse him fro and light him round about. Thus,
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  Speaker 7: Sir Harry Percy took the field forsooth as I you say,
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  Speaker 7: JESU Christ in heaven on high did help him well
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  Speaker 7: that day. But nine thousand there was no more. If
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  Speaker 7: chronicle will not lain. Forty thousand Scots and four that
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  Speaker 7: day fought them again. But when the battle began to
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  Speaker 7: join in haste, there came a knight. Then let us
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  Speaker 7: fare forth, hath he tain? And thus he said, full right,
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  Speaker 7: my lord, your father, he greets you well with many
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  Speaker 7: a noble knight. He desires you to bide that he
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  Speaker 7: may see this fight. The Baron of Grastock is come
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  Speaker 7: out of the west with him and noble company. All
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  Speaker 7: they lodge at your father's, this knight, and the battle
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  Speaker 7: fain would they see for Jesu's love, said Sir Harry Percy,
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  Speaker 7: that died for you and me wend to my lord
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  Speaker 7: my father again, and say thou saw me not with ee?
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  Speaker 7: My troth is plight to yon Scottish knight. It needs
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  Speaker 7: me not to lain that I should bide him upon
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  Speaker 7: this bent and I have his troth again. And if
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  Speaker 7: that I wend off this ground forsooth unfortune away, he
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  Speaker 7: would me call but a coward knight in his land
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  Speaker 7: another day? Yet had I lever to be run'd and
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  Speaker 7: rent by marry that nchalmay that ever my manhood should
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  Speaker 7: be reprov'd with a scot another day. Wherefore shoot archers
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  Speaker 7: for my sake, and let sharp arrows flee, minstrels play
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  Speaker 7: up for your warrison, and well quit. It shall be
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  Speaker 7: every man think on his true love and mark him
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  Speaker 7: to the Trinity. For to God I make mine avow
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  Speaker 7: this day? Will I not flee the bloody heart in
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 7: the Douglas's arms, his standards stood on high, that every
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 7: man might full well know. Besides stood stairs three the
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  Speaker 7: white Lion on the English part. For soon, as I
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  Speaker 7: you say, the Lucs and the Crescents, both the Scots
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 7: fought them again upon Saint Andrew. Loud did they cry,
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  Speaker 7: and thrice they shout on high, and soon mark them
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  Speaker 7: on our Englishmen, as I have told you right Saint George,
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  Speaker 7: the bright, our lady's knight to name, they were full
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  Speaker 7: fain our Englishmen. They cried on height, and thrice they
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  Speaker 7: shalt again with that sharp arrows began to flee, I
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  Speaker 7: tell you, in certain men of arms began to join.
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  Speaker 7: Many a doughy man was there slain. The Percy and
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  Speaker 7: the Douglas. Met that either of them was fain, they
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  Speaker 7: shapt together, while that they swept with swords of fine colaine,
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  Speaker 7: till the blood from their bacinets ran as the roke
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  Speaker 7: doth in the rain yield thee to me, said the Douglas.
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  Speaker 7: Or else thou shalt be slain, For I see by
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  Speaker 7: thy bright bacinet thou art some man of might, and
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  Speaker 7: so I do by thy burnished brand, thou art an earl,
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  Speaker 7: or else a knight. By my good faith, said the
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  Speaker 7: noble Percy, thou hast thou read full right? Yet will
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  Speaker 7: I never yield me to thee while I may stand
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  Speaker 7: and fight. They swapped together, while that they swept with
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  Speaker 7: swords sharp and long, each on another, so fast they
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  Speaker 7: beat till their helms came in pieces down. The Percy
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  Speaker 7: was a man of strength, I tell you, in this
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  Speaker 7: stound he smote the Douglas at the sword's length, that
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  Speaker 7: he felled him to the ground. The sword was sharp,
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  Speaker 7: and sword did bite, I tell you incertain to the
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  Speaker 7: heart he did him smite. Thus the Douglas was slain.
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  Speaker 7: The standards stood still on each side, with many a
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  Speaker 7: grievous groan. There they fought the day and all the night,
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  Speaker 7: and many a dowy man were slown. There was no
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  Speaker 7: friquet that there would fly, but stiffly in stour did
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  Speaker 7: stand a shone hewing on other. While they might dry
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  Speaker 7: with many a bayful bran. There was slain upon the
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  Speaker 7: scotty side for sooth, and certainly, Sir James of Douglas,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 7: there was slain that they that he did die the
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  Speaker 7: Earl of menteith he was slain, grisly groaned upon the ground,
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 7: Sir Davie Scott, Sir Walter Stewart, Sir John of anger Stone,
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  Speaker 7: Sir Charles Murray in that place that never a foot
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  Speaker 7: would fly. Sir Hugh Maxwell, a lord, he was with
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  Speaker 7: the Douglas, he did die. There was slain upon the
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 7: Scotty side forsooth, as I you say, of four and
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 7: forty thousand Scots went but eighteen away. There was slain
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 7: upon the English side for sooth, and certainly a gentle knight,
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 7: Sir John Fitzhugh. It was more the pity, Sir James Herebotell,
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 7: there was slain for him. Their hearts were sore, the
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  Speaker 7: gentle lovel There was slain that the Percy's standard bore.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 7: There was slain upon the English side for sooth, As
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  Speaker 7: I you say, of nine thousand Englishmen, five hundred came away.
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 7: The others were slain in the field. Christ keep their
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 7: souls from woe, Seeing there were so few friends against
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 7: so many a foe. Then on the morn they made
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 7: them bearers of birch and hazel gray. Many a widow
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 7: with weeping tears there makes they fetch away. This fray
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 7: began at Otterburn. Between the night and the day there
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 7: the Douglas lost his life and the Percy was led away.
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 7: Then was there a Scottish prisoner taken. Sir Hugh Montgomery
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 7: was his name. For sooth as I you say, he
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 7: borrowed the Percy home again. Now let us all for
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 7: the Percy pray to Jesu most of might, to bring
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 7: his soul to the bliss of heaven, for he was
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 7: a gentle knight. End a ballad. This recording is in
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  Speaker 7: the public.
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  Speaker 2: Domain Section twenty three of Book of English Ballads by
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  Speaker 2: George Edwards, read for LibriVox dot Org by Susan Frum,
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  Speaker 2: The Lament of the Border widow my love. He built
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 2: me a bonny power and clad it wei a lily flower,
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 2: a prower power. Ye ne'er did see than my true
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 2: love he built for me. There came a man by
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 2: middle day. He spied his sport and went away and
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 2: brought the king, that very knight who break my power
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: and slew my knight. He slew my knight to me,
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 2: so oh dear, He slew my knight and poined his gear.
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 2: My servants all for life did flee and left me
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 2: in extremity. I sued his sheet, making my mane I
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 2: watch'd the corpse myself a laine. I watched his body
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 2: night and day. No living creature came that way. I
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 2: took his body on my back, and whilst I gazed,
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 2: and whilst I sat, I digged a grave and laid
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 2: him in, and happed him with the sod so green.
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 2: But think Naie, my heart was there when I laid
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 2: the moul on his yellow hair. Think Naie, my heart
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 2: was way when I turned about away to gay nay
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 2: living man. I'll love again since that my lovely knight
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 2: is slain wi eer lock of his yellow hair, I'll
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 2: change my heart for ever. Mayre end off ballad. This
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  Speaker 2: recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section twenty four of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 5: read for LibriVox dot Org by bridget Hellon the banks
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  Speaker 5: a Yarrow, later Ian drinking the wine, and ere they
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 5: paid the lawing they said to combat them between, to
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 5: fight it in the dowing. What though ye be my
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 5: sister's lord, I'll cross ouse olds to morrow, What though
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 5: my wife, your sister be, I'll meet ye then on Yarrow.
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 5: Oh stay at Hay, my own good lord, Oh stay
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  Speaker 5: my own dear marrow, my cruel brother, Wi you betray
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  Speaker 5: on the dowry banks, O Yarrow. O fare ye well,
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  Speaker 5: my lady dear, and put aside yer sorrow, For if
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  Speaker 5: I gay, I'll soon return freed the bonny banks a Yarrow.
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  Speaker 5: She kissed his cheek, she camed his hair as off
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 5: she done before. Oh, she belted him with his good brand.
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 5: And he's away to Yarrow. When he gave up the
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 5: tennis bank, as he gave many a morrow. Nine armed
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 5: men lay in a den on the dowy brazer Yarrow.
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  Speaker 5: Oh come ye here to hunt or hawk the bonny forest, thorrow,
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  Speaker 5: Or come ye here to wield your brand upon the banks,
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 5: O Yarrow. I come not here to hunt a hawk,
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 5: as after I've done before. Oh, but I come here
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  Speaker 5: to wield my brand upon the banks, O Yarrow. If
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  Speaker 5: ye attack me nine to aim, then may God send
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 5: ye sorrow. Yet will I fight? We'll stand I may
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 5: on the bonny banks a Yarrow. Two has he hurt,
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 5: and three has slain on the bloody braiser Yarrow. But
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 5: the stubborn knight crept in behind and pierced his body thorough.
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  Speaker 5: Gay haime gay home you brother John, and tell your
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 5: sister sorrow to come and lift her leaf a lord
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 5: on the dowry bunks o Yarrow. Her brother John gave
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 5: o'er yon hill as oft he'd done before her. There
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  Speaker 5: he met his sister. Dear come running fast to Yarrow.
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  Speaker 5: I dreamt a dream last night, she says. I wish
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 5: it had been a sorrow. I dreamt I put the
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  Speaker 5: heather green with my true love on Yarrow. I'll read
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 5: your dream, sister, he says, I'll read it into sorrow.
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 5: You bidden, go take up your love his sleeping sound
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 5: on Yarrow. She's torn the ribbons fry her head that
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 5: were breath braid and narrow. She's kilted up her long clathing,
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 5: and she's away to Yarrow. She's taining him in her arms, tire,
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 5: and she given him kisses thorrow. She sought to bind
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 5: his bunny wounds, but he lay dead on Yarrow. Oh
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 5: hold your tongue, her father says, And let me oh
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 5: your sorrow. I'll read it to a better lord than him,
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 5: ye lost an Yarrow. Oh hold your tongue, father, she says,
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 5: far worse you make my sorrow. A better lord could
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 5: never be than him that lies on Yarrow. She kissed
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 5: his lips. She camed his hair as after she had
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 5: done before. Oh, and there with grief her heart did
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 5: break upon the banks of Yarrow. End of ballad. This
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 5: recording is in the public domain.
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 14: Section twenty five of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 14: read for Librevox dot Org by Drew mic Hugh of Lincoln,
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 14: showing the cruelty of a Jew's daughter. Four and twenty
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 14: bonnie boys were playin at the bar, and up it
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 14: stands him, sweet sir Hugh, the flower among them.
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  Speaker 2: As.
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  Speaker 14: He kick'd the bar. There we he's foot and kept
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 14: it it wi his knee till even at the Jew's
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 14: window he got the bonny baw flea. Cast out the
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 14: bar to me, fer maid, cast out the bar to me.
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  Speaker 14: Never a bit, says the Jew's daughter, till ye come
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 14: up to me. Come up, Sweet Hugh, come up, dear,
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 14: you come up and get the bar. I Winnie, come
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 14: my Maine, come without me. Bonny boys are She's tearing
• 2:25:45
  Speaker 14: her to the Jew's garden where the grass grew lang
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 14: and green. She's put an apple red and white to
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 14: wild a bonny boyin. She's wild him in through a chamber.
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 14: She's wild him in through twa. She's wild him in
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 14: into the third chamber, and that was the worst of aur.
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 14: She's tied the little boy hands and feet. She's pierced
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 14: him with a knife. She's caught his heart's blood in
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 14: a golden cup and twined him o his life. She
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 14: rode him in a cake o lead, bade him lie
• 2:26:27
  Speaker 14: still in sleep. She cast him in a deep draw
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 14: well was fifty fathom deep. When bells were rung and
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 14: masts was sung, and every burn went heme. Then Ilka
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 14: lady had her young son, but Lady Helen had name.
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 14: She rode her mantle, her about, and sayer sergan she weep,
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  Speaker 14: and she ran unto the jew's hoose when they were
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  Speaker 14: all asleep. My bonny, sir Hugh, my pretty sir, you,
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  Speaker 14: I praylee to me, speak Lady Helen, come to the
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 14: deep roel, gin ye your son would seek. Lady Helen
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 14: ran to the deep roel and knelt upon her knee.
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 14: My bonny sir Hugh, an ye be here, I prayle
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 14: speak to me. The lead is wondrous, heavy mather, The
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 14: well is wondrous deep. A keen penknife sticks in my heart,
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  Speaker 14: and it's hard for me to speak, gahem gahem me
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  Speaker 14: mit her dear, fetch me my winding sheet. And at
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  Speaker 14: the back of Merry Lincoln, it's there we twae shall
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  Speaker 14: meet now Lady Helen, she's ganhim, made him a winding sheet.
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  Speaker 14: And at the back of Merry Lincoln the dead horpse
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  Speaker 14: did her meat. And all the balls a Merry Lincoln
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  Speaker 14: without men's hands were wrung, and all the books a
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  Speaker 14: Merry Lincoln were read without men's tongue. Never was such
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  Speaker 14: a burial Saint Adam's Day's Beacon. End of ballad. This
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  Speaker 14: recording is in the public domain. Section twenty six a
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  Speaker 14: book of English Ballads by George Edwards, read for Librevox
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  Speaker 14: dot Org by Drumac. Sir Patrick Spens. The King sits
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  Speaker 14: in Dunfermline Town, drinking the blood red wine. Oh, where
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  Speaker 14: will I get a skily skipper to sail a ship
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  Speaker 14: of mine? O up and spack. An elder knight sat
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  Speaker 14: at the King's right knee. Sir Patrick Spends is the
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  Speaker 14: best sailor that ever sail'd the sea. Our King has
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  Speaker 14: written a braid letter and seated it with his hand
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  Speaker 14: and sent it to Sir Patrick Spens was walking on
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  Speaker 14: the strand to Norway, to Norway, to Norway. O'er the
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  Speaker 14: fame the King's Daughter of Norway, tis thou man bring
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  Speaker 14: her hem. The first word that Sir Patrick read say loud, loud, lofty.
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  Speaker 14: The nist word that Sir Patrick read the tear blinded
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  Speaker 14: is e oh wah is this hath done this deed?
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  Speaker 14: And toweld the King of me to send us out
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  Speaker 14: at this time of the year to sail upon the sea.
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  Speaker 14: Be it wind, be it wet, be it hail, be
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  Speaker 14: it sleet. Our ship must sail. Effeme the King's Daughter
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  Speaker 14: of Norway, tis we much fesher I am. They hoist
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  Speaker 14: their sails and munday morn where all the speed they may.
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  Speaker 14: They have landed in Norway upon a wooden's day. They
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  Speaker 14: hadna been a week a week in nor Away Betway,
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  Speaker 14: when that the lords of Norway be can allowed to say,
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  Speaker 14: ye Scottish men, spend all our king's gold and our
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  Speaker 14: king's fee ye lie ye lie ye liars loud fo lied.
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  Speaker 14: I hear ye lie. For I brought as much white
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  Speaker 14: money as gaen my men and me and I brought
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  Speaker 14: a half foo of good red good out o'er the
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  Speaker 14: sea with me. Make ready, Make ready, my merry men,
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  Speaker 14: are our good ship sails them morn?
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  Speaker 12: Now?
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  Speaker 14: Ever, alake, my master, dear, I fear a deadly storm.
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  Speaker 14: I saw the new moonlight yestereen with the old moon
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  Speaker 14: in her arm. And if we gang to sea, Master,
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  Speaker 14: I fear we'll come to harm. They hadn't assailed a legal,
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  Speaker 14: legal league, but barely three. When the lift grew dark,
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  Speaker 14: and the wind blew loud and gurly grew the sea,
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  Speaker 14: the anchors break and the top mast lap. It was
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  Speaker 14: sick of deadly storm, and the waves come over the
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  Speaker 14: broken ship till all her sides were torn. Or where
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  Speaker 14: will I get a good sailor to take my helm
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  Speaker 14: in hand? Till I get up to the tall top
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  Speaker 14: mast to see if I can spy land? Oh here,
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  Speaker 14: I am a sailor good to take the helm in hand,
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  Speaker 14: till you go up to the tall top mast. But
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  Speaker 14: I fear the ill. Ne'er spy land. He hadn't again,
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  Speaker 14: And a step a step, a step, but barely one.
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  Speaker 14: When about flew out o'er a goodly ship, and the
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  Speaker 14: salt sea it came in. They fetch a web of
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  Speaker 14: the silken cliff, another o the twine, and wap them
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  Speaker 14: into our ship's side, and let nay the sea come in.
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  Speaker 14: They fetched a web of the silken cliff, another o
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  Speaker 14: the twine, and they wapped them round that good ship's side.
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  Speaker 14: But still the sea come in. All lethlif were our
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  Speaker 14: good Scotch lords to whet their cock'd trout shining, but lying, oh,
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  Speaker 14: the play was played. They wapped their hats a boon,
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  Speaker 14: and money was the feather bed that flatter'd on the fame,
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  Speaker 14: And money was the good lord's son that never mr
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  Speaker 14: came em. The ladies wrang their fingers white, the maidens
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  Speaker 14: tore their hair ah for the sake of their true
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  Speaker 14: loves for them, they'll see the mare o lang Lang.
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  Speaker 14: May the ladies sit with their fans into their hands
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  Speaker 14: before they see Sir Patrick Spens come sailing to the
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  Speaker 14: strand and lang Lang. May the maidens sit with their
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  Speaker 14: good cams in their hair, awaiting for their end their
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  Speaker 14: loves for them, they'll see the mare. Oh forty miles
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  Speaker 14: off Aberdeen tis fifty fathoms deep, and there lies good
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  Speaker 14: Sir Patrick spends with a Scot's lord at his feet.
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  Speaker 14: Section twenty six of Book of English Ballads by George Edwards,
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  Speaker 14: read for librevox dot org by drumac End of Ballad.
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  Speaker 14: This recording is in the public domain.