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

12 ANCIENT SONGS
The king a royale ChriftmaiTe kept,
With mirth and princelye cheare ; 10
To him repaired many a knighte,
That came both farre and neare.
And when they were to dinner fette,
Aj; d cups went freely round ;
Before them came a faire damfelie,
And knelt upon the ground.
A boone, a boone, O kinge Arthure,
I beg a boone of thee ;
Avenge me of a carlilh knighte,
Who hath fhent my love and mee.
In Tearne-Wadling % his caflle Sands,
All on a hill foe hye,
And proudlye rife the battlements,
And gave the fcreameres ilye.
Noe gentle knighte, nor ladye faire,
May pafs that caftle-walle :
But from that foule difcurteous knighte,
Mifhappe will them befalle.
Hee's twyce the fize of common men,
Wi' rhewes, and fmewes ftronge,
And on his backe he bears. a clubbe,
That is both thicke and long-e.
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This is the name of a place in Cumberland, where the
an ancient Caftlc are fill to be Jem :
fignifes a fmall Lake.
Tearne in the diakcl of that Count