Read Ebook: The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads by Borrow George Wise Thomas James Editor

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"Now hear, thou beauteous Sidselil, I've this to complain of thee, That thou hast ta'en another swain And broke thy troth with me."

"Now hear, thou Tygge Hermandsen, Thou might'st have been aware, I would disdain to wed the swain To wet his feet had fear.

"If thou hadst been a Lady's swain, And hadst thou lov'd me true, With thy sword's stroke thou wouldst have broke Thy way through the billows blue."

"To the cloyster I'll myself betake, And the monkish vow I'll swear; For good or ill, proud Sidselil, I'll never more come here."

"But if hereby thy way shall lie When the brooks shall calmly run, If cheeses two in my store I view In thy sack I'll drop thee one."

THE WICKED STEPMOTHER

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She taunts him with the idea of his becoming a monk, and going about with a sack begging for alms.