Or are you returned backe againe Glafgèrion fwore a full great othe, By oake, and afhe, and thorne ; Ladye, I was never in your chambère, 75 Sith the time that I was borne. O then it was your lither foot-page, He hath beguiled mee. Then fhee pulled forth a little pen-knìffe, Sayes, there fhall never noe churlès blood Within my bodye spring: No churlès blood fhall eer defile The daughter of a kinge. Home then went Glafgèrion, And woe, good lord, was hee. Sayes, come thou hither, Jacke my boy, Come hither unto mee. 80 85 If I had killed a man to night, Jacke, I would tell it thee: go But if I have not killed a man to night And Ver. 77. little. MS. And he pulled out his bright browne word And he fmote off that lither ladds head, 95 He fett the swords poynt till his breft, The pummil untill a stone : Throw the falfeneffe of that lither ladd, Ver: 100. werne all. MS. VIII. OLD SIR ROBIN OF PORTINGALE From an ancient copy in the Editor's MS collection. L ET never again foe old a man Marrye foe yonge a wife, As did old fir' Robin of Portingale; Who may rue all the dayes of his life. For the mayors daughter of Lin, god wott, And thought with her to have lived in love, 100 They scarce were in their wed-bed laid, But upp she rofe, and forth fhee goes, To the steward, and gan to weepe, Sleepe you, wake you, faire fir Gyles? Or be you not withinn ? Sleepe you, wake you, faire fir Gyles, O, I am waking, fweete, he faid, Twenty-four good knights, fhee fayes, 19 15 20 25 He mourned, fighed, and wept full fore: I fweare by the holy roode The teares he for his mafter wept Were blent water and bloode. VOL. I. Ver 19. unbethought. MS. 30 Ver. 32. blend. MS. All that beheard his deare mastèr As he stood at his garden pale: · Hath any one done to thee wronge Any of thy fellowes here? Or is any 'one' of thy good friends dead, That thou fhedst manye a teare ? Or if it be my head bookes-man, For no man here within my howse, O, it is not your head bookes-man, But on to-morrow ere it be noone All doomed to die are yee. And of that bethank your head steward, If this be true, my litle foot-page, If it be not true, my dear maftèr, If it bee not true, thou litle foot-page, A dead corfe fhalt thou lie. Ver. 47. or. MS. V. 48. deemed. MS. 35 40 45 50 55 O call V. 56, bes. MS. O call now downe my faire ladye, O call her downe to mee: And like to die I bee. Downe then came his ladye faire, 60 What is your will, my owne wed-lord? 63 What is your will with mee? O fee, my ladye deere, how ficke, And like to die I bee. And thou be ficke, my own wed-lord, Soe fore it grieveth mee: But my five maydens and myfelfe Will make the bedde for thee: 70 And at the waking of your firft fleepe, And at the waking of your firft fleepe, 75 Your forrowes we will flake. He put a filk cote on his backe, And mail of manye a fold: And heé putt a steele cap on his head, E 2 80 He |