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The King's Wake, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow
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Title: The King's Wake
and Other Ballads
Editor: Thomas J. Wise
Release Date: December 4, 2008 [eBook #27409]
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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KING'S WAKE***
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 KING’S WAKE
and other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
THE KING’S WAKE
To-night is the night that the wake they hold,
To the wake repair both young and old.
Proud Signelil she her mother address’d:
May I go watch along with the rest?
"O what at the wake wouldst do my dear?
Thou’st neither sister nor brother there.
"Nor brother-in-law to protect thy youth,
To the wake thou must not go forsooth.
"There be the King and his warriors gay,
If me thou list thou at home wilt stay."
"But the Queen will be there and her maiden crew,
Pray let me go, mother, the dance to view."
So long, so long begged the maiden young,
That at length from her mother consent she wrung.
"Then go, my child, if thou needs
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