Summary

Portrait of Francis James Child Francis James Child,  The English and Scottish Popular Ballads…

“ I-wis they neuer stinted nor blan.
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'Spread thy ancyent, Erle of Westmoreland!
The halfe-moone faine wold wee see!'
But the halfe-moone is fled and gone,
And the dun bull vanished awaye;
And Ffrancis Nortton and his eight sonnes
Are fled away most cowardlye.
Ladds with mony are counted men,
Men without mony are counted none;
But hold your tounge! why say you soe?
Men wilbe men when mony is gone.
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