Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

SIGNELIL a tale from the cornish and other ballads

a tale from the cornish

and other ballads

by GEORGE BORROW

by

London: printed for private circulation 1913

London

printed for private circulation

p. 4Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

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p. 5SIGNELIL

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The Lady her handmaid to questioning took: “Why dost thou so sickly and colourless look?”  But sorrow gnaws so sorely!

“’Tis little wonder if sickly I’m growing, Malfred my lady! So much am I busied with cutting and sewing.”

“Erewhile was thy cheek as the blooming rose red, But now thou art pale, even pale as the dead.”

“To conceal the truth longer ’tis vain to essay, My gallant young master has led me astray.”

“And if the young noble has led thee astray, Say, what gave he thee for thy virtue in pay?”

p. 6“He gave to me shoes were gold spangled all o’er, And them have I worn with affliction so sore.

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