The Brother Avenged - and Other Ballads

The Brother Avenged, by George Borrow
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Title: The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads
Translator: George Borrow Editor: Thomas J. Wise Release Date: October 6, 2008 Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 [eBook #26790]
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Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE BROTHER AVENGED
AND
OTHER BALLADS
BY
GEORGE BORROW LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
1913
Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter .
p. 4
THE BROTHER AVENGED
I stood before my master’s board, The skinker’s office plying; The herald-men brought tidings then That my brother was murdered lying. I followed my lord unto his bed, By his dearest down he laid him; Then my courser out of the stall I led, And with saddle and bit arrayed him. I sprang upon my courser’s back, With the spur began to goad him; And ere I drew his bridle to, Full fifteen leagues I rode him. And when I came to the noisy hall Where the Kemps carouse were keeping, O then I saw my mother dear O’er the corse of my brother weeping. Then ...