The Roxburghe ballads . rd. Sl The Merchants-man of Goicry becomes in our Roxburghe Ballad, p. 72,some horse-purchaser for Bohemia (not improbably the Palsgrave Frederick,husband of James daughter, the admired Princess Elizabeth), Avhich helps tomark the early date, circa 1612 (they were affianced 27 December, 1612, andmarried on 14 Feb., 161f). The boast about having never stolen horse ormare in my life resembles George Stooles 1 never stole no Oxe, etc.(Compare our vol. vi. p. 596, on lady Gray, and Hughie Graham.) Geordie bydances on the green, with fair ladies whom he had marked down f
The Roxburghe ballads . rd. Sl The Merchants-man of Goicry becomes in our Roxburghe Ballad, p. 72,some horse-purchaser for Bohemia (not improbably the Palsgrave Frederick,husband of James daughter, the admired Princess Elizabeth), Avhich helps tomark the early date, circa 1612 (they were affianced 27 December, 1612, andmarried on 14 Feb., 161f). The boast about having never stolen horse ormare in my life resembles George Stooles 1 never stole no Oxe, etc.(Compare our vol. vi. p. 596, on lady Gray, and Hughie Graham.) Geordie bydances on the green, with fair ladies whom he had marked down for plunder,anticipated Claude Duval (Bagford Ballads, p. 13, 1876) ; but Duval gave backtheir jewels to each lovely partner of his Coranto. In all such matters la GrandeNation sets au example of truer chivalry than la nation des Boutiquiers. 70 [Roxburghe Collection, IV. 53 ; Pepys, II. 150 ; Jersey, I. 86 ; Euth, I. 150.] <&f)t ILife aim SDeatS of George of ^DjrforD* To a pleasant New Tune, called, Poor AS I went over Zo?i(ton-~Bridge, all in a misty morning,There did I see one weep and mourn, lamenting for her Georgy : Sis time it is past; Sis life it will not last, Alack, and alas ! there is no Remedy !Which makes the heart icithin me ready to burst in three,To think on the death of poor Georgy. George of Oxford is my name, and few theres but have known me,Many a mad prank have I playd, but now theyve overthrown time it is past [my life it will not last] etc. Oh ! then bespake the Lady Gray, Ile haste me in the morning,And to the Judge Ile make my way, to save the life of time it is past ! Sis life else it may cost; Alack, and alas ! is there no Remedy ?It makes the heart within me ready to burst in three, To think on the death of poor Georgy. 33 George of Oxford. 71 Go, saddle me my milk-white Steed, go saddle me my bonny,That I may to New-Castle speed, to save the life of time it is past: \_His life it will not last], etc. But when
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