George Wharton Edwards Merry 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.
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• 2. Hugh Of Lincoln
  SHOWING THE CRUELTY OF A JEW'S DAUGHTER
  
  
  Four and twenty bonny boys
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• 3. Barbara Allen's Cruelty
  All in the merry month of May,
  When green buds they were swelling,
  Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed lay
  For love o' Barbara Allen.
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• 4. Chevy Chace
  God prosper long our noble king,
  Our liffes and safetyes all;
  A woefull hunting once there did
  In Chevy-Chace befall.
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• 5. Sir Patrick Spens
  The king sits in Dunfermline town,
  Drinking the blude-red wine;
  "O whare will I get a skeely skipper,
  To sail this new ship of mine?"
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• 6. 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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• 7. Flodden Field
  King Jamie hath made a vow,
  Keepe it well if he may:
  That he will be at lovely London
  Upon Saint James his day.
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• 8. 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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