“ The Angel will grieve not, who governs the wind,
Though a gust should the lamp of the widow blow out.
3.
Load not thyself with gold, O mortal man, for know
No strength thou’lt have for loads when summon’d hence away.
Avoid excess of meat, it maketh gross, I trow,
And gross thou must not be when summon’d hence away;
For through the narrow gate thou’lt find it hard to go
Of death, if thou art gross when summon’d hence away. ”

“ I’ve other answers still in store.”
When women for answers are at stop,
There’ll be in the main no water drop.
p. 22EPIGRAMS 1.
There’s no living, my boy, without plenty of gold,
But gold to obtain you must ever be bold. ”

“ Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email [email protected]. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
ELLEN OF VILLENSKOV
AND OTHER BALLADS by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
p. 5ELLEN OF VILLENSKOV.
There lies a wold in Vester Haf,
There builds a boor his hold;
And thither he carries hawk and hound,
He’ll stay through winter’s cold.
He takes with him both hound and cock,
He means there long to stay ”