George Borrow

“ Who waste our land will lay;
Upon no other food than maids
And ladies will he prey.
“Within our country lives a trold
From us our land will tear,
Unless we can procure a man
To fight with him will dare. ”

“ 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.
THE KING’S WAKE
and other ballads by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
p. 5THE KING’S WAKE
To-night is the night that the wake they hold,
To the wake repair both young and old. ”