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

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ANCIENT SONGS
" .All frolick light and wanton
" She hath her carriage borne
u And given thee for a kingly crown
** To wear a cuckold's iorne."
%* The learned editor of the Specimens of Welch
Poetry, ^to.inf$rms me that the Jhry of the Boy ani>
THE Mantle is taken from what is related in fome of
the old Weljh MSS. of Tegan Earfron, one of King Arthur's
mifirejjes. She is faid to have poffeffed a mantle that
would not fit any immedeji or incontinent woman ; this
(which, the old writers fay, was reckoned among the curi-
ofities of Britain) is frequently alluded to by the old Weljb.
Bards.
Carleile, fo often mentioned in the Ballads ofK. Ar-
thur, the editor once thought might probably be a corruption
c/'Caer-LEOn, an ancient Britijh city on the river UJke
in MonmouthJhire, which was one of the places of K. Ar-
thur's chief refedence ; but he is now convinced, that it is
no other than Carlisle, in Cumberland ;
:
the Old Englijh
Minfrels, being moft of them Northern Men, naturally re-
prefented the Hero of Romance as refiding in the North :
And many of the places mentioned in the Old Ballads are
fill to be found there: Thus Teame-Wadling (vid. p.
12. note.) is the name of a Lake near Hejketh in Cumber-
land, on the road from Penrith to Carljfle. A Tradition
fill prevails in the neighbourhood, that an old. Caftle once
Jfood at Tearne-Wadling, the remains of which are either.
nrw f or were not longfind to be feert.
XIX, V AMOUR