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"He was the flower of noble wights, None ever more sincerecoldebee; Of comely mien and shapehee was, And tenderlye heeloved mee. ...

ITEM, My Lord useth and accustomith to syende yerely to the Channon that kepith the light before our Lady of Walsyngham, for his ...

XV. King Edward IV. and the Tanner of Tamworth. ................................................ This was a story of great fame ...

And he had ridden ore dale and downe By eight of clocke in the day, When he was ware of a bold tannèr, Come ryding along the way ...

"I never stole them," quoth our king, "I tell you, Sir, by the roode." "Then thou playest, as many an unthrift doth, And standes ...

"Here's twentye groates of white moneye, Sith thou will have it of mee." "I would have sworne now," quoth the tanner, "Thou hads ...

"What boote wilt thou have?" the tanner replyd, "Nowe tell me in this stounde. "Noe pence nor halfpence, Sir, by my faye, But I ...

NOTES Vid. Gloss. Nor in that of the "Barker" mentioned below. In the reign of Edward IV. Dame Cecill, Lady of Torboke, in her ...

XVI As Ye came from the Holy Land. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PILGRIM AND TRAVELLER The scene of this song is the same as in No. 14. The ...

"What is the cause she leaves thee thus, And a new way doth take, That some times loved thee as her life, And thee her joy did m ...

XVII. Hardyknute. A SCOTTISH FRAGMENT. ..................................................... As this fine morsel of heroic poetr ...

In bloody fight with sword in hand Nine lost their lives bot doubt: Four yet remain, lang may they live To stand by liege and la ...

In dangers great to do; He's ta'en a horn as green as grass, And gi'en five sounds sae shill, That trees in green wood shook the ...

My youngest son shall here remain To guard these stately towers, And shut the silver bolt that keeps Sae fast your painted bower ...

Brave Hardyknute to gain With fairest words, and reason strong, Strave courteously in vain. XIX. Syne he has gane far hynd out o ...

But bloody, bloody was the field, Ere that lang day was done. XXIV. The king of Scots, that sindle brook'd The war that look'd l ...

Say, if he face my bended bow, He sure nae weapon fears." XXIX. Proud Norse with giant body tall, Braid shoulders and arms stron ...

Wha stood unmov'd at his approach His fury to repell. XXXIV. "That short brown shaft sae meanly trimrn'd, Looks like poor Scotla ...

The valiant Scots nae revers thole To carry life away. XXXIX. Here on a lee, where stands a cross Set up for monument, Thousands ...

some weeks ago in a vault at Dumferline. It is written on vellum in a fair Gothic character, but so much defaced by time, as you ...