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Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne + two ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26833] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NIELS EBBESEN AND GERMAND +GLADENSWAYNE*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>NIELS EBBESEN<br /> +<span class="smcap">and</span><br /> +GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE</h1> +<p style="text-align: center">TWO BALLADS</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span><br /> +1913</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin & Co. for Clement +Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>NIELS EBBESEN.</h2> +<p>All his men the Count collects,<br /> + And from Slesvig marched away;<br /> +Never such as host was seen<br /> + Or before or since that day.</p> +<p>Into Denmark marched the Count,<br /> + Followed by so fair a band;<br /> +Banners twenty-four they bore,<br /> + Power like theirs might none withstand.</p> +<p>Gert the Count to Randers rode,<br /> + To bad counsel lending ear;<br /> +For from old it stood foretold,<br /> + He should end there his career.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>He would not the place avoid,<br /> + But seemed bent to tempt his fate;<br /> +Of the rural lords and thanes<br /> + He the quarters up will beat.</p> +<p>Knights and freeborn men apart,<br /> + There trooped eighteen thousand bows;<br /> +Forty thousand made they all,<br /> + Who could such a host oppose?</p> +<p>To Niels Ebbesen the Count<br /> + Word to appear before him sent;<br /> +And safe convoy him he gave,<br /> + Which should doubt and fear prevent.</p> +<p>Gert the Count met Ebbesen<br /> + North of Randers by the sea:<br /> +“Welcome be, Niels Ebbesen!<br /> + Say how matters stand with thee.”</p> +<p>To Niels stretched the Count his hand,<br /> + And to parleying straight they go;<br /> +There was little then of jest,<br /> + And of dallying less, I trow.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“Sir Niels Ebbesen, thou art<br /> + Welcome as the flowers in spring;<br /> +How stand minds in North Jutland,<br /> + Thence what tidings dost thou bring?</p> +<p>“Say how all thy wealthy friends<br /> + And thy heart’s loved lady are;<br /> +Which dost wish for at my hands,<br /> + Smiling peace, or bloody war?”</p> +<p>“Well stand minds in North Jutland,<br /> + Each man’s courage there’s erect;<br /> +Say, dost come as friend or foe?<br /> + What from thee may we expect?</p> +<p>“I have kindred in the North,<br /> + Men of wealth and noble race;<br /> +Shouldst thou it require of them<br /> + They’ll be ready for thy Grace.”</p> +<p>“Wise art thou, Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + And thy prudence none can doubt;<br /> +When thou canst not straightway hit<br /> + Widely then thou ridst about.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>“Hear thou, Sir Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + Thou must on mine errand ride;<br /> +Say, how many men thou hast<br /> + Brought, on whom thou mayst confide?”</p> +<p>“Kindred, Sir, I have, and friends,<br /> + ’Mongst the hardy Jutlanders;<br /> +Willingly they follow me<br /> + To the stormy strife of spears.</p> +<p>“I have brought, such as they are,<br /> + With me thirty mounted men;<br /> +Be they fewer, or be they more,<br /> + Dear are they to Ebbesen.”</p> +<p>“Hast thou with thee thirty lads?<br /> + That seems but a scanty force;<br /> +Yester e’en at Sir Bugge’s Gate<br /> + Stood’st thou with a hundred horse.”</p> +<p>Backward Ebbesen recoiled,<br /> + And with high flushed cheek replied:<br /> +“He nor knight nor gentleman<br /> + Is, who me hath thus belied.</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>“Be it man or woman who<br /> + To my face dares that to say,<br /> +Till I’ve answered suitably,<br /> + Ne’er from him I’ll flinch +away.”</p> +<p>“Hear thou, dear Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + We thereof will talk no more;<br /> +To thy friend Sir Bugge ride,<br /> + Him to serve me true win o’er.”</p> +<p>“If your errand I shall do,<br /> + And to Bugge bold repair,<br /> +From thy part what I’m to say<br /> + First to me thou must declare.”</p> +<p>“Bugge bold has me defied,<br /> + Young Poul Glob has done the same;<br /> +Anders Frost makes one of them,<br /> + Him your Chief ’tis said ye name.</p> +<p>“And e’en thou, Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + Certain courtiers hast with thee,<br /> +Who have eaten of my bread,<br /> + And have basely quitted me.</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>“First there is young Eske Frost,<br /> + And his stalwart brothers two;<br /> +Without leave of mine obtained,<br /> + From my service they withdrew.</p> +<p>“More there are whom I’ve obliged,<br /> + And who pay me now no heed;<br /> +If to Bugge’s rede you list<br /> + Soon ye’ll see how you will speed.”</p> +<p>“Nought of Bugge’s rede I know,<br /> + What he’ll do or leave undone;<br /> +Eske thy true servant was,<br /> + Cast no blame that knight upon.</p> +<p>“Eske Frost’s a gallant man,<br /> + Guards his honour like his eye;<br /> +Sought he his discharge to gain,<br /> + Why to him didst it deny?</p> +<p>“Custom ’tis in Danish land,<br /> + And has been from days of eld,<br /> +That the man who will not serve<br /> + Shall not be to serve compell’d.</p> +<p><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>“No two things, save Monk and cowl,<br /> + Are for aye together tied;<br /> +As they loathe or like their place<br /> + Courtmen ride away or bide.”</p> +<p>It was Count Sir Gert, could not<br /> + Such like reasoning understand:<br /> +“No one ought to quit his lord<br /> + Whilst that lord would him command.</p> +<p>“And, Sir Niels, too long thou hast<br /> + Here stood idly chattering;<br /> +Either thou shalt Denmark quit,<br /> + Or thou shalt on gallows swing.</p> +<p>“’Neath safe convoy since thou’rt come<br /> + Thou shalt go withouten hurt;<br /> +To thy cost else thou should’st learn<br /> + What it is to anger Gert.”</p> +<p>“I thy princely passport hold,<br /> + Whether it avail or not;<br /> +If thou do me aught of harm,<br /> + Infamy thy name will blot.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“Thieves mayst thou on gallows hang,<br /> + To be torn by carn and crow;<br /> +For thy threat from native land,<br /> + Wife, and child, I will not go.</p> +<p>“But if me from native land<br /> + And my wife and babes you chase,<br /> +Thou shalt soon, for certainty,<br /> + Rue thou e’er hast seen my face!”</p> +<p>“Ride away, Sir Ebbesen,<br /> + Quickly hence thyself betake,<br /> +Or I will, as well I can,<br /> + On thy skull the helmet break.”</p> +<p>“None e’er saw me so adread<br /> + But that I could tremble still, <a +name="citation12"></a><a href="#footnote12" +class="citation">[12]</a><br /> +Hear, Count Gert! look to thyself,<br /> + Guard thee from approaching ill.”</p> +<p>“Ebbesen, thou tirest me,<br /> + Suffering thus thy tongue to run;<br /> +Till to-morrow thou art safe,<br /> + Even till the set of sun.</p> +<p><!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>“This, and the next day till eve,<br /> + Thou for me shalt be at rest;<br /> +But no belted knight am I<br /> + If I be not soon thy guest.”</p> +<p>Swift away rode Ebbesen,<br /> + Shook his iron-gloved fist in air:<br /> +“That I soon shall come again,<br /> + Good Sir Count, in memory bear.”</p> +<p>Forward rode Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + Spurred his steed till blood outflew;<br /> +With his men the Count remained,<br /> + No one dared the knight pursue.</p> +<p>Till he reached his Castellaye,<br /> + Still he rode withouten rest;<br /> +To his dear Dame he complained,<br /> + Begged of her her counsel best.</p> +<p>“Here thou sitt’st, dear Housewife mine,<br /> + What advice canst thou bestow?<br /> +Gert will drive me from the land,<br /> + Hath declared himself my foe.</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>“To my choice three things he put,<br /> + Least of all I liked the third;<br /> +I should join him, or the land<br /> + Quit, or hang, such was his word.”</p> +<p>“Ah! what counsel can I give<br /> + From my simple woman’s mind?<br /> +The most desperate counsel’s best,<br /> + Can we but that counsel find.</p> +<p>“The most desperate counsel’s best,<br /> + If we can but it discover;<br /> +Either slay the tyrant, or<br /> + Burn the house the tyrant over.</p> +<p>“To the smithy lead your steeds,<br /> + Let them all be shod anew;<br /> +Turn ye all the heels afore,<br /> + Thus your trace will cheat the view.</p> +<p>“Turn ye all the heels afore,<br /> + Track ye thus, I ween, can no man;<br /> +Never tell to mortal wight,<br /> + Thou hast learnt this from a woman.”</p> +<p><!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>“Here my gallant swains ye sit,<br /> + Merry-making o’er your drink;<br /> +Every lad who loves his lord<br /> + From his lord now must not shrink.”</p> +<p>Up then rose the Courtmen bold,<br /> + To take on anew agreed;<br /> +Save Sir Niels’ sister’s son,<br /> + From his uncle would recede.</p> +<p>Swore the knights a solemn oath<br /> + That for him their lives they’d stake,<br /> +And with him would dauntless ride<br /> + Wheresoe’er a fray he’d make.</p> +<p>So they rode to Fruerlund,<br /> + From their steeds they there dismount;<br /> +Into Randers then they walked,<br /> + To beat up the hairless Count.</p> +<p>It was Sir Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + To the bridge of Randers came:<br /> +“He who’s loath to follow me<br /> + Straightway his discharge may claim.”</p> +<p><!-- page 16--><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span>Forward stepped the tiny Frost,<br /> + Thought the truest of the true:<br /> +“Give me my dismissal, Sir,<br /> + Give me horse and saddle too.”</p> +<p>So he sought and got discharge,<br /> + Saddle got and steed withall;<br /> +But he served his master best<br /> + That same day ere evening fall.</p> +<p>To the Count’s door rode Sir Niels,<br /> + Ne’er from that withdrew his look;<br /> +Thrice thereon with iron lance<br /> + Heavily the hero strook.</p> +<p>“Rise up from thy sleep, my lord!<br /> + Let me in right speedily;<br /> +Thy dear brother, Henrik Count,<br /> + Has dispatched me unto thee.”</p> +<p>“By my brother if thou’rt sent,<br /> + Rest thee from thy journey long;<br /> +Me to-morrow in the Kirk<br /> + Meet ’twixt mass and matin song.”</p> +<p><!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>“Let your page but at the door<br /> + Take from me the entrusted scroll;<br /> +Ribe hard invested is,<br /> + Colding town is burnt to coal.</p> +<p>“Ribe hard invested is,<br /> + Colding’s burnt, and Vedel’s flung<br /> +Open to our troops its gate,<br /> + And Niels Ebbesen is hung.”</p> +<p>“If what thou hast told be truth,<br /> + News it is to make one gay;<br /> +Thou shalt in respect be held<br /> + Herald till thy dying day.</p> +<p>“Page! no more keep fast the door,<br /> + Let me on the herald gaze;<br /> +For that we the land have won<br /> + Is the sum of what he says.”</p> +<p>To the window went the Count,<br /> + Thence his eye the lances caught:<br /> +“Ha! Niels Ebbesen’s at hand,<br /> + Curse the hour I Denmark sought.”</p> +<p><!-- page 18--><a name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span>Fierce with shields the doors they banged,<br /> + Burst the locks with frequent blow:<br /> +“Hairless Count! art thou within?<br /> + Hairless Count, we pledge thee now!”</p> +<p>“Set thee down, Niels Ebbesen,<br /> + We shall things accommodate;<br /> +Let us send to Henrik Count,<br /> + And Claus Krummedige straight.”</p> +<p>“Not so yesterday didst thou<br /> + Speak, Sir Count, by Randers strand;<br /> +Then thou saidst that I should hang,<br /> + Or should quit my native land.”</p> +<p>Up and spoke the Count’s footpage,<br /> + Kinsman he to Ebbesen:<br /> +“By his words if ye be fooled<br /> + Lost art thou and all thy men.”</p> +<p>Up and spoke the black young page,<br /> + Black because he was not white:<br /> +“Straight desist from useless talk,<br /> + Let, I rede, your faulchions bite.”</p> +<p><!-- page 19--><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span>“I’ve no castles, Sir, which can<br /> + Such a prisoner long contain;<br /> +Now, ye men, spare not your swords!<br /> + Hew at him with might and main!”</p> +<p>So the tyrant Count they took,<br /> + Made him kneel upon the floor;<br /> +And his bald head off they hewed,<br /> + Hewed it off the bedstead o’er.</p> +<p>Soon as they the Count had slain,<br /> + Loud the drums the alarum beat;<br /> +It was Sir Niels Ebbesen<br /> + From the town would fain retreat.</p> +<p>From the town he hasted then,<br /> + Dared no longer there to stay;<br /> +Soon met him Sir Ove Hals,<br /> + And essayed to bar his way.</p> +<p>“Do thou hear, Sir Ove Hals!<br /> + Do to me no injury!<br /> +Thou my faithful cousin art,<br /> + Prythee, Ove, let me flee.”</p> +<p><!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>“Our affinity I know<br /> + Well I know its near degree;<br /> +But my Lord you’ve foully slain,<br /> + Niels! I will not let thee flee.”</p> +<p>Bleat the sheep, the ganders hiss,<br /> + Crows the cock upon the wall;<br /> +Ove Hals was sore beset,<br /> + Must to the Holsteiners call.</p> +<p>’Gainst the Danes he could not stand,<br /> + Must to the Holsteiners call;<br /> +“Murdered is your liege the Count<br /> + Up, and on his butchers fall!”</p> +<p>Fight Sir Ove and Sir Niels,<br /> + Ebbesen he would not fly,<br /> +He Sir Ove’s head smote off,<br /> + Left the corse in blood to lie.</p> +<p>Ebbesen to Randers bridge<br /> + Came, there grew the combat hot,<br /> +There he found the tiny Frost<br /> + Who had late dismissal got.</p> +<p><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>Niels sped over Randers bridge,<br /> + Holstein’s men came thronging after;<br /> +What did then the tiny Frost<br /> + But the bridge drop in the water.</p> +<p>Thanks to Niels’s sister’s son,<br /> + Well he served his uncle then;<br /> +In the firth the planks he cast,<br /> + No bridge found the Holstein men.</p> +<p>Niels a widow visited,<br /> + She’d but barley bannocks two,<br /> +One she gave to Niels, because<br /> + He the hairless tyrant slew.</p> +<p>Ebbesen! God sain thy soul,<br /> + Never was a braver Dane;<br /> +Thou didst free thy fatherland<br /> + From a foreign tyrant’s chain.</p> +<p>Christ bless every gallant man,<br /> + Who shall both with mouth and hand,<br /> +In the time of its distress,<br /> + Seek to serve his fatherland!</p> +<h2><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE</h2> +<p>Our King and Queen sat o’er the board<br /> + In high festivity;<br /> +Between them there was much discourse<br /> + About the briny sea.</p> +<p>Our gallant King and youthful Queen<br /> + They sailed across the foam;<br /> +Much better had it been for both<br /> + That they had stayed at home.</p> +<p>But barely they a mile had gone<br /> + When still the vessel stood,<br /> +There came a raven wild, who strove,<br /> + To sink them in the flood.</p> +<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>“If any thing the ship doth hold<br /> + Concealed beneath the main,<br /> +I’ll give thee, bird, a lump of gold<br /> + To set it free again.</p> +<p>“O do not sink us in the sea,<br /> + Swart bird,” exclaimed the Queen,<br /> +“And I’ll give thee a lump of gold<br /> + Weighs Bismer pounds fifteen.”</p> +<p>“Gold and silver I heed them not,<br /> + I crave another fee,<br /> +The treasure neath thy girdle fair<br /> + Thou now must promise me.</p> +<p>“Plenty of gold I have myself,<br /> + From gold no help you’ll find,<br /> +On what beneath your girdle’s hid<br /> + I’ve firmly set my mind.”</p> +<p>“I give what neath my girdle’s hid,<br /> + My bunch of keys—what more?<br /> +I’ll speedily have others forged<br /> + If I but win to shore.”</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>Then straight she took the little keys<br /> + And cast them overboard;<br /> +Away then flew the Raven, glad<br /> + He had obtained her word.</p> +<p>The Queen walks on the yellow sand,<br /> + Then o’er her came a gloom,<br /> +She felt that Germand Gladenswayne<br /> + Was quick within her womb.</p> +<p>And from that day when five short months<br /> + Her head had flitted o’er,<br /> +The Queen she went to the chamber high,<br /> + And a lovely son she bore.</p> +<p>Born was he in the evening hour,<br /> + They christened him at night;<br /> +They called him Germand Gladenswayne,<br /> + Concealed him whilst they might.</p> +<p>They fostered him a winter’s space,<br /> + They fostered him for nine;<br /> +The fairest youth he grew on whom<br /> + The sun did ever shine.</p> +<p><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>So well he throve, so well he grew,<br /> + His horse he well could ride,<br /> +Whene’er his mother on him gazed<br /> + So woefully she sigh’d.</p> +<p>“Now list to me, my mother dear,<br /> + One thing I fain would know;<br /> +Why dost thou sigh so piteously<br /> + Whene’er I past thee go?”</p> +<p>“Now hear thou, Germand Gladenswayne,<br /> + I’ve cause to be forlorn;<br /> +Beguiled I gave thee to a fiend<br /> + Before thou yet wast born.”</p> +<p>“And do thou hear, my mother dear,<br /> + All sorrow cast aside:<br /> +Whatever be the will of God<br /> + By that I must abide.”</p> +<p>It chanced upon a harvest morn<br /> + The breezes scarcely stirr’d,<br /> +That as the chamber door stood ope<br /> + So wild a yell was heard.</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>In came the laidly bird of prey,<br /> + And stood the Queen before:<br /> +“Dost thou remember, gracious Queen,<br /> + Thy gift to me of yore?”</p> +<p>She swore by God, and by the saints,<br /> + By all that’s good she swore,<br /> +That son nor daughter in the world<br /> + She never, never bore.</p> +<p>Then flew away the bird of prey,<br /> + With an eldritch shriek he’s flown:<br /> +“Whene’er I meet Germand Gladenswayne<br /> + I’ll remember he’s my own.”</p> +<p>When Germand fifteen years had reached<br /> + He’d fain a damsel wed;<br /> +He loved the daughter of England’s king,<br /> + The angel-lovely maid.</p> +<p>His longing to be with his plighted maid<br /> + He might no more withstand:<br /> +“O how shall I come across the foam<br /> + To the flood-encircled land?”</p> +<p><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>It was Germand Gladenswayne,<br /> + He donned his best array;<br /> +And he has ta’en to his mother dear<br /> + To the lofty hall his way.</p> +<p>In came Germand Gladenswayne,<br /> + In scarlet clad was he:<br /> +“O mother lend me thy feather robe<br /> + To fly across the sea.”</p> +<p>“My feather robe hangs upon the crook,<br /> + The feathers droop so low,<br /> +If thou dost fly to the foreign land<br /> + I shall see thee never moe.</p> +<p>“The pinions are so broad that they<br /> + Grow heavy in the air,<br /> +I’ll have another made for me<br /> + If I live another year.”</p> +<p>He set himself in the feather robe,<br /> + Flew o’er the ocean straight;<br /> +And there met him the raven wild,<br /> + Beneath a rock did wait.</p> +<p><!-- page 28--><a name="page28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span>He flew up, and he flew down,<br /> + He flew in fearless guise;<br /> +And when he reached the midst of the sea<br /> + He heard a frightful voice.</p> +<p>“Ha, well met, Germand Gladenswayne,<br /> + O’er long hast thou delay’d;<br /> +Thou wast but little when to me<br /> + A present thou wast made!”</p> +<p>“O let me fare, O let me fly,<br /> + To speak my maiden dear;<br /> +Be sure that I, when her I’ve seen,<br /> + Again will meet thee here.”</p> +<p>“Then I will let thee fly, but still<br /> + My mark on thee will set,<br /> +Lest thou midst knights and beauteous dames<br /> + Thy raven lord forget.”</p> +<p>Then out the boy’s right eye he tore,<br /> + And drank up half his blood;<br /> +But still he reached the bower of his bride,<br /> + His heart was yet so good.</p> +<p><!-- page 29--><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span>He set himself by the Damsels’ bower,<br /> + All bloody and distrest;<br /> +All the dames within that were<br /> + Forgot to smile and jest.</p> +<p>All the damsels grew so still,<br /> + With horror sat they fast;<br /> +Except proud Damsel Adelude,<br /> + Aside her work she cast.</p> +<p>All the maids within forsook<br /> + Both jest and merry note;<br /> +’Twas the proud Damsel Adelude<br /> + Her hands together smote.</p> +<p>“Now welcome, Germand Gladenswayne,<br /> + Where hast thou been to play?<br /> +Say, why bebloodied are thy clothes,<br /> + And pale thy cheeks as clay?”</p> +<p>“Farewell, dear Damsel Adelude,<br /> + I soon from thee must fly;<br /> +For he must have my youthful life<br /> + Who tore from me my eye.”</p> +<p><!-- page 30--><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>Her silver handled comb she took,<br /> + And strove to comb his head;<br /> +For every hair that she did comb<br /> + A briny tear she shed.</p> +<p>For every lock the maiden combed<br /> + A stream of tears did run;<br /> +How often she the mother cursed<br /> + Who had betrayed her son.</p> +<p>It was Damsel Adelude,<br /> + She took him in her arm:<br /> +“Accursed be the wicked Dame<br /> + Who caused us all this harm.”</p> +<p>“Hear thou, sweet Damsel Adelude,<br /> + Curse not my mother so,<br /> +She had no power in this affair,<br /> + We all to fate must bow.”</p> +<p>He set him in his feather robe,<br /> + And mounted on the wind;<br /> +She set her in another robe,<br /> + And followed fast behind.</p> +<p><!-- page 31--><a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>“O turn thee, Damsel Adelude,<br /> + Turn my beloved one,<br /> +Thy bower door doth open stand,<br /> + Thy keys lie on the stone.”</p> +<p>“Though my bower door doth open stand,<br /> + And my keys lie on the stone,<br /> +Yet I will follow thee to the place<br /> + Where harm to thee was done.”</p> +<p>All the birds she cut so small<br /> + She met with there on high,<br /> +Except the laidly Raven wild,<br /> + And him she could not spy.</p> +<p>’Twas the proud Damsel Adelude<br /> + Flew down towards the strand;<br /> +Nought found she of the Gladenswayne<br /> + Except the good right hand.</p> +<p>She flew so wroth the clouds below<br /> + The laidly bird to find;<br /> +She flew East, and she flew West,<br /> + To slay him she designed.</p> +<p><!-- page 32--><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span>She hacked the birds into pieces three,<br /> + Before her knife that came;<br /> +But when she met the Raven wild<br /> + Into ten she hacked his frame.</p> +<p>And still till she of sorrow died<br /> + She flew across the heath;<br /> +It was for Germand Gladenswayne<br /> + She suffered grief and death.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">* * * * *</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +Printed for THOMAS J. 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