The book of British ballads . ld brast,And sithe, as gleam away it went. To the king again went he there,And said, lief, sir, I saw a hand; Out of the water it came all bare, And thrice brandished that rich brand. Help me! soon were I thore ! He led his lord unto the strand ;A rich ship with masts and oar, Full of ladies there they fand. The ladies that were fair and free,Courteously the king gan they fong; And one that brightest was of blee,Weeped sore and handes wrung. Brother, she said, woe is me, From leeching hast thou been too long; I wot that greatly grieveth me,For thy painis are full
The book of British ballads . ld brast,And sithe, as gleam away it went. To the king again went he there,And said, lief, sir, I saw a hand; Out of the water it came all bare, And thrice brandished that rich brand. Help me! soon were I thore ! He led his lord unto the strand ;A rich ship with masts and oar, Full of ladies there they fand. The ladies that were fair and free,Courteously the king gan they fong; And one that brightest was of blee,Weeped sore and handes wrung. Brother, she said, woe is me, From leeching hast thou been too long; I wot that greatly grieveth me,For thy painis are full strong. 133 All sore astonied stood the duke; He stood as still as still mote be;Then hastend back to tell the king,But he was gone from under the tree. But to what place he cold not tell, For never after he did him spy ;But he saw a barge go from the land,And he heard ladyes howl and cry. And whether the king were there, or not, He never knew, nor ever cold ;But from that sad and direfull day,He never more was seene on Franklin, dc T. Armstrong, sc. HE HEIRE OF L1NNE. This ballad we copy fromthe Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. states that he found it in his folio MS.;and that he had inserted supplemental stanzas,necessary in consequence of the breaches anddefects which existed in his fragment. These, he adds, it is hoped the reader will pardon, as, indeed, the com-pletion of the story was suggested by a modern ballad ona similar subject. It is much to be lamented that themodern ballad has not been more distinctly pointedout: it does not appear in any collection; nor are we acquainted with thecopy to which reference is made.* Dr. Percy considers that, from the Scot-tish phrases here and there, it would seem to have been originally composedbeyond the Tweed; and, he observes, the Heir of Linne seems not to havebeen a Lord of Parliament, but a laird, whose title went along with the the Scottish origin of the ballad, there can be little doubt. Mr. R. C
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