The book of British ballads . On a circle of stones they placed the pot,On a circle of stones but barely nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnished brass did glimmer andshine. They rolld him up in a sheet of lead,A sheet of lead for a funeral pall; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him, lead, and bones, and all. At the Skelf-hill, the cauldron stillThe men of Liddesdale can show ; And on the spot, where they boild the pot,The spreat and the deer-hair neer shall ORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET. This ballad was firstprinted in the Reliques, where it is given with
The book of British ballads . On a circle of stones they placed the pot,On a circle of stones but barely nine ; They heated it red and fiery hot, Till the burnished brass did glimmer andshine. They rolld him up in a sheet of lead,A sheet of lead for a funeral pall; They plunged him in the cauldron red, And melted him, lead, and bones, and all. At the Skelf-hill, the cauldron stillThe men of Liddesdale can show ; And on the spot, where they boild the pot,The spreat and the deer-hair neer shall ORD THOMAS AND FAIR ANNET. This ballad was firstprinted in the Reliques, where it is given with somecorrections from a MS. copy transmitted from Scotland. It seems to be composed, says Dr. Percy, not withoutimprovements, out of two English ones, Lord Thomas andFair Ellinor, and Fair Margaret and Sweet latter it does not very closely resemble; but betweenit and the former, there is certainly a general likeness;although, not sufficient to warrant the conclusion that theone was even suggested by the other. Lord Thomas andFair Ellinor, is given with corrections, from a black lettercopy in the Pepys Library, entitled A Tragical Story on the unfortunate love ofLord Thomas and Fair Ellinor, together with the downfal of the Brown Girl. Inthe same collection, he adds, may be seen an attempt to modernise this old storyand reduce it to a different measure : a proof of its popularity. We print, fromthe original, the full title to this ballad :— The unfortunate Forrester, or Fair Ell
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