| Share page | Visit Us On FB |
|
CHILDE WATERS |
||
|
LII
' Peace now,' he said, ' Burd Ellen, And be of good cheer, I pray ;
Your bridal and your churching both Shall be upon one day.' |
||
|
47. Childe Maurice
I
C
HILDE MAURICE hunted the Silver Wood, He whistled and he sang: ' I think I see the woman yonder That I have loved lang.'
11 He called to his little man John,
' You don't see what I see; For yonder I see the very first woman
That ever loved me.'
in He says, ' Come hither, my little man John,
That I pay meat and fee, For thou shalt go to John Steward's wife
And greet her well from me;
IV
' And as it falls as many times
As knots be knit in a kell, Or merchantmen go to leeve London
To buy ware or to sell;
kell] hair-net, i.e. give her as many greetings as there are meshes in a net. leeve] lovely. |
||
|
214 |
||