Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made. THE DALBY BEAR and other ballads and other ballads by GEORGE BORROW by London: printed for private circulation 1913 London printed for private circulation p. 5THE DALBY BEAR p. 5 There goes a bear on Dalby moors, Oxen and horses he devours. The peasants are in deep distress The laidly bear should them oppress. Their heads together at length they lay, How they the bear might seize and slay. They drove their porkers through the wood, The bear turn’d round as he lay at food. Outspoke as best he could the bear: “What kind of guests approach my lair?” Uprose the bear amain from his food, A christian man before him stood. p. 6A little hour together they fought, The bear to the earth the man has brought. p. 6 Fast came a knight as he could make, He heard the heart of the peasant break. The bear upon him fiercely glar’d; “Thou needst not hurry, I’m prepar’d.”
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