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Title: The Brother Avenged
and Other Ballads
Translator: George Borrow
Editor: Thomas J. Wise
Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26790]
Language: English
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROTHER AVENGED***
Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE BROTHER AVENGED
and
OTHER BALLADS
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
THE BROTHER AVENGED
I stood before my master’s board,
The skinker’s office plying;
The herald-men brought tidings then
That my brother was murdered lying.
I followed my lord unto his bed,
By his dearest down he laid him;
Then my courser out of the stall I led,
And with saddle and bit arrayed him.
I sprang upon my courser’s back,
With the spur began to goad him;
And ere I drew his bridle to,
Full fifteen leagues I rode him.
And when I came to the noisy hall
Where the Kemps carouse were keeping,
O then I saw my mother dear
O’er the corse of my brother weeping.
Then I laid an arrow on my good bow,
The bow that never deceived me;
And straight I shot the King’s Kempions twelve,
Of my brother who had bereaved me.
And then to the Ting I rode away,
Where
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