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The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads
The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads
The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads
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    The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow

    The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Fountain of Maribo, by Anonymous, Edited

    by Thomas Wise, Translated by George Borrow

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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    Title: The Fountain of Maribo

    and other ballads

    Author: Anonymous

    Editor: Thomas Wise

    Release Date: June 15, 2009 [eBook #29123]

    Language: English

    Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOUNTAIN OF MARIBO***

    Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.  Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.

    the

    FOUNTAIN OF MARIBO

    and other ballads

    by

    GEORGE BORROW

    London:

    printed for private circulation

    1913

    Copyright in the United States of America

    by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

    THE FOUNTAIN OF MARIBO

    or

    THE QUEEN AND THE ALGREVE

    The Algreve [7] he his bugle wound

    The long night all

    The Queen in bower heard the sound,

    I’m passion’s thrall.

    The Queen her little page address’d,

    The long night all

    To come to me the Greve request,

    I’m passion’s thrall.

    He came, before the board stood he,

    The long night all

    Wherefore, O Queen, has sent for me?

    I’m passion’s thrall.

    "As soon as

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