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

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ANCIENT SONGS
And he pulled out his bright browne fworde,
And dryed it on his fleeve,
And he fmote off that lither ladds head, 95
Who did his ladye grieve.
He fett the fwords poynt till his breft,
The pummil untill a ftone :
Throw the falfeneffe of that lither ladd,
Thefe three lives all were gone. 100
Vtr. 100. werne all. MS>
VIII.
OLD SIR ROBIN OF PORTINGALE.
From mi ancietit copy in the Editor's MS colleftion*
LET
never again foe old a man
Marrye foe yonge a wife,
As did old fir ' Robin of Portingale ;
Who may rue all the dayes of his life.
For the mayors daughter of Lin, god wott,
He chofe her to his wife,
And thought with her to have lived in love,
But they fell to hate and ftrife.