George Wharton Edwards Long Poems

• 1. Robin Hood And Allen-a-dale
  Come listen to me, you gallants so free,
  All you that love mirth for to hear,
  And I will tell you of a bold outlaw,
  That lived in Nottinghamshire.
  ...
• 2. King Cophetua And The Beggar-maid
  I read that once in Affrica
  A princely wight did raine,
  Who had to name Cophetua,
  As poets they did faine.
  ...
• 3. Robin Hood's Death And Burial
  When Robin Hood and Little John
  Down a down, a down, a down,
  Went o'er yon bank of broom,
  Said Robin Hood to Little John,
  ...
• 4. Chevy Chace
  God prosper long our noble king,
  Our liffes and safetyes all;
  A woefull hunting once there did
  In Chevy-Chace befall.
  ...
• 5. Phillida And Corydon
  In the merrie moneth of Maye,
  In a morne by break of daye,
  With a troope of damselles playing
  Forthe 'I yode' forsooth a maying;
  ...
• 6. The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington
  There was a youthe, and a well-beloved youthe,
  And he was a squire's son;
  He loved the bayliffe's daughter deare,
  That lived in Islington.
  ...
• 7. The Nut-brown Maid
  Be it right, or wrong, these men among
  On women do complain;
  Affirming this, how that it is
  A labour spent in vain
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• 8. The Battle Of Otterburn
  THE FIRST FYTTE
  
  
  It fell about the Lammas tide,
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• 9. Fair Margaret And Sweet William
  As it fell out on a long summer's day,
  Two lovers they sat on a hill;
  They sat together that long summer's day,
  And could not talk their fill.
  ...

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