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    Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads
    Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads
    Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads
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    Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads

    By George Henry Borrow and Thomas James Wise

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads

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      Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads - George Henry Borrow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Signelil, by Anonymous, Edited by Thomas J.

      Wise, Translated by George Borrow

      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: Signelil

      a Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads

      Author: Anonymous

      Editor: Thomas J. Wise

      Release Date: May 14, 2009 [eBook #28816]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGNELIL***

      Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      SIGNELIL

      a tale from the cornish

      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.

      SIGNELIL

      The Lady her handmaid to questioning took:

      Why dost thou so sickly and colourless look?

      But sorrow gnaws so sorely!

      "’Tis little wonder if sickly I’m growing,

      Malfred my lady!

      So much am I busied with cutting and sewing."

      "Erewhile was thy cheek as the blooming rose red,

      But now thou art pale, even pale as the dead."

      "To conceal the truth longer ’tis vain to essay,

      My gallant young master has led me astray."

      "And if the young noble has led thee astray,

      Say, what gave he thee for thy virtue in pay?"

      "He gave to me shoes were gold spangled all o’er,

      And them have I worn with affliction so sore.

      "He gave to me also of silk a soft shift,

      And with sorrow most painful I’ve worn the fair gift.

      "He gave me, Christ sain him! a gold ring so fine,

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