Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

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ANCIENT SONGS
To England then I came with fpeede,
To wedd faire Phelis ladye bright
For love of whome I travelled farr
To try my manhood and my might, 60
But when I had efpoufed «her,
I ftayd with her but fortye dayes,
Ere that I left this ladye faire,
And went from her beyond the feas.
All cladd in gray, in pilgrime fort, 6$
My voyage from her I did take
Unto the bleffed Holy-land,
For Jefus Chrift my Saviours fake»
Where I erle Jonas did redeeme,
And all his fonnes which were fifteene, 70
Who with the crueli Sarazens
In prifon for long time had beene,
I flew the gyant Amarant
In battel fiercelye hand t6 hand :
And doughty Barknard killed I, 75
A treacherous knight of Pavye land.
Then I to England came againe,
And here with Colbronde fell I fought
An ugly gyant, which the Danes
Had for their champion hither brought. 80
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