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BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE WRITINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE 
 
 OF 
 
 GEORGE HENRY BORROW 
 
 THOMAS J. WISE 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 
 
 By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. 
 
 1914 
 
Of this Book 
 
 One Hundred Copies Only 
 
 have been printed. 
 
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PREFACE 
 
 The object of the present Bibliography is to give a concise 
 account, accompanied by accurate collations, of the original 
 editions of the Books and Pamphlets of George Borrow, 
 together with a list of his many contributions to Magazines 
 and other Publications. It will doubtless be observed 
 that no inconsiderable portion of the Bibliography deals with 
 the attractive series of Pamphlets containing Ballads, 
 Poems, and other works by Borrow which were printed for 
 Private Circulation during the course of last year. Some 
 account of the origin of these pamphlets, and some 
 information regarding the material of which they are 
 composed, may not be considered as inopportune or 
 inappropriate. 
 
 As a writer of English Prose Borrow long since achieved 
 the position which was his due ; as a writer of English 
 Verse he has yet to come by his own. 
 
 The neglect from which Borrow's poetical compositions 
 (by far the larger proportion of which are translations 
 from the Danish and other tongues) have suffered has 
 arisen from one cause, and from one cause alone, — the fact 
 that up to the present moment only his earliest and, in the 
 majority of cases, his least successful efforts have been 
 available to students of his work. 
 
x PREFACE 
 
 In 1826, when Borrow passed his Romantic Ballads 
 through the Press, he had already acquired a working 
 knowledge of numerous languages and dialects, but of his 
 native tongue he had still to become a master. In 1826 
 his appreciation of the requirements of English Prosody- 
 was of a vague description, his sense of the rhythm of 
 verse was crude, and the attention he paid to the 
 exigencies of rhyme was inadequate. Hence the majority 
 of his Ballads, beyond the fact that they were faithful 
 reproductions of the originals from which they had been 
 laboriously translated, were of no particular value. 
 
 But to Borrow himself they were objects of a regard which 
 amounted to affection, and there can be no question that 
 throughout a considerable portion of his adventurous life 
 he looked to his Ballads to win for him whatever measure of 
 literary fame it might eventually be his fortune to gain. 
 In Lavengro, and other of his prose works, he repeatedly 
 referred to his " bundle of Ballads " ; and I doubt whether 
 he ever really relinquished all hope of placing them before 
 the public until the last decade of his life had well advanced. 
 
 That the Ballad Poetry of the old Northern Races should 
 have held a strong attraction for Borrow is not to be 
 wondered at. His restless nature and his roving habits 
 were well in tune with the spirit of the old Heroic Ballads ; 
 whilst his taste for all that was mythical or vagabond 
 (vagabond in the literal, and not in the conventional, sense 
 of the word) would prompt him to welcome with no 
 common eagerness the old Poems dealing with matters 
 supernatural and legendary. Has he not himself recorded 
 how, when fatigued upon a tiring march, he roused his 
 flagging spirits by shouting the refrain ''Look out, look 
 02it, Svend Vonved !" ? 
 
PREFACE xi 
 
 In 1829, three years after the Romantic Ballads had 
 struggled into existence, Borrow made an effort to place 
 them before a larger public in a more complete and 
 imposing form. In collaboration with Dr. (afterwards Sir 
 John) Bowring he projected a work which should contain 
 the best of his old Ballads, together with many new ones, 
 the whole to be supported by the addition of others from 
 the pen of Dr. Bowring.^ A Prospectus was drawn up and 
 issued in December, 1829, and at least two examples of 
 this Prospectus have survived. The brochure consists of 
 two octavo pages of letterpress, with the following heading: — 
 
 PROSPECTUS. 
 
 It is 2»'oposed to publish, in Two Volumes Octavo, 
 Price to Subscribers ^1 Is., to Non-Subscribers £\ 4.s., 
 
 THE SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA, 
 
 TRANSLATED BY 
 
 Dr. BOWRIXG and Mr. BORROW. 
 
 DEDICATED TO THE KIXG OF DENMARK, BY PERMISSION OF HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 ^ The majority of the Manuscripts of Ballads written in or about 1829 are 
 upon paper watermarked with the date 1828. The majority of the Manuscripts 
 of Ballads written in or about 1854 are upon paper watermarked with the date 
 1852. 
 
xii PREFACE 
 
 Then came a brief synopsis of the contents of the 
 volumes, followed by a short address on " the debt of 
 justice due from England to Scandinavia." 
 
 Two additional pages were headed List of Subscribers, 
 and were left blank for the reception of names which, 
 alas ! were recorded in no sufficient number. The 
 scheme lapsed, Borrow found his mission in other fields 
 of labour, and not until 1854 did he again attempt to 
 revive it. 
 
 But in 1854 Borrow made one more very serious effort 
 to give his Ballads life. In that year he again took them 
 in hand, subjected many of them to revision of the most 
 drastic nature, and proceeded to prepare them finally for 
 press. Advertisements which he drew up are still extant 
 in his handwriting, and reduced facsimiles of two of these 
 may be seen upon the opposite page. But again Fate 
 was against him, and neither Kceinpe Viser nor Songs of 
 Europe ever saw the light. ^ 
 
 After the death of Borrow his manuscripts passed into 
 the possession of his step-daughter, Mrs. MacOubrey, from 
 whom the greater part were purchased by Mr. Webber, 
 a bookseller of Ipswich, who resold them to Dr. William 
 Knapp. These Manuscripts are now in the hands of the 
 Hispanic Society, of New York, and will doubtless remain 
 for ever the property of the American people. Fortunately, 
 when disposing of the bulk of her step-father's books and 
 papers to Mr. Webber, Mrs. MacOubrey retained the 
 Manuscripts of the Ballads, together with certain other 
 
 ^ Among the advertisements at the end of The Romany Rye, 1857, three 
 works (i) Celtic Bards, Chiefs, and Kings, (2) Songs of Ew-ope, and (3) 
 Kcempe Viser, were announced as ' ready for the Press ' ; whilst a fourth, 
 Northern Skalds, Kings, and Earls, was noted as ' unfinished. ' 
 
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PREFACE XV 
 
 documents of interest and importance. It was from these 
 Manuscripts that I was afforded the opportunity of pre- 
 paring the series of Pamphlets printed last year. 
 
 The Manuscripts themselves are of four descriptions. 
 Firstly, the Manuscripts of certain of the new Ballads 
 prepared for the Songs of Scandinavia in 1829, untouched, 
 and as originally written ; ^ secondly, other of these new 
 Ballads, heavily corrected by Borrow in a later handwriting ; 
 thirdly, fresh transcripts, with the revised texts, made in or 
 about 1854, of Ballads written in 1829; and lastly some of 
 the more important Ballads originally published in 1826, 
 entirely re-written in 1854, and the text thoroughly 
 revised. 
 
 As will be seen from the few examples I have given in 
 the following pages, or better still from a perusal of the 
 pamphlets, the value as literature of Borrow's Ballads as 
 we now know them is immeasurably higher than that 
 hitherto placed upon them by critics who had no material 
 upon which to form their judgment beyond the Romantic 
 Ballads, Targum, and The Talisman, together with the sets 
 of minor verses included in his other books. Borrow 
 himself regarded his work in this field as superior to that 
 of Lockhart, and indeed seems to have believed that one 
 cause at least of his inability to obtain a hearing was 
 Lockhart's jealousy for his own Spanish Ballads. Be that 
 as it may — and Lockhart was certainly sufficiently small- 
 minded to render such a suspicion by no means ridiculous 
 
 ' No doubt a considerable number of the Ballads prepared for the Songs of 
 Scandinavia in 1829, and surviving in the Manuscripts of that date, were 
 actually composed during the three previous years. The production of the 
 complete series must have formed a substantial part of Borrow's occupation 
 during that "veiled period," the mists surrounding which Mr. Shorter has so 
 effectually dissipated. 
 
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xvi PREFACE 
 
 or absurd — I feel assured that Borrow's metrical work will 
 in future receive a far more cordial welcome from his 
 readers, and will meet with a fuller appreciation from his 
 critics, than that which until now it has been its fortune to 
 secure. 
 
 Despite the unctuous phrases which, in obedience to the 
 promptings of the Secretaries of the British and Foreign 
 Bible Society^ whose interests he forwarded with so much 
 enterprise and vigor, he was at times constrained to 
 introduce into his official letters, Borrow was at heart a 
 Pagan. The memory of his father that he cherished most 
 warmly was that of the latter's fight, actual or mythical, 
 with ' Big Ben Brain,' the bruiser ; whilst the sword his 
 father had used in action was one of his best-regarded 
 possessions. To that sword he addressed the following 
 youthful stanzas, which until now have remained un- 
 printed : 
 
 1 " What you have written has given me great pleasure, as it holds out hope 
 that I may be employed usefully to the Deity, to man, and to myself." — {^From 
 Borrow's letter to the Rev. J. Jowett.^ 
 
 " Our Committee stumbled at an expression in your letter of yesterday . . . 
 at which a humble Christian might not unreasonably take umbrage. It is 
 where you speak of becoming '■useful to the Deity, to man, and to yourself.'' 
 Doubtless you meant the prospect of glorifying God." — {From the Rev. J. 
 Jo~iVett^s reply. '\ 
 
 " The courier and myself came all the way without the slightest accident, 
 my usual wonderful good fortune accompanying us." — [From Borrozv's letter 
 to the Rev. A. Brandra>n.'\ 
 
 " You narrate your perilous journey to Seville, and say at the beginning of 
 \he descn^ixon ^ my usual wonderful good fortune accompanying us. ^ This is 
 a mode of speaking to which we are not accustomed, it savours of the 
 profane.'' — [From the Rev. A. Brandram's reply.'] 
 
PREFACE 
 
 THE SWORD 
 
 Full twenty fights viy father sazv, 
 
 And died with twenty red ivounds gored ; 
 
 I heir'd what he so loved to draw, 
 His ancient silver-handled sword. 
 
 It is a szvord of tveight and length, 
 Of jags and blood-specks nobly full ; 
 
 Well wielded by his Cornish strength 
 It clove the Gaulman's helm and scull. 
 
 Hurrah ! thou silver-handled blade, 
 Though thou' St but little of the air 
 
 Of swords by Cornets luorn on p'rade. 
 To battle thee I vozv to bear. 
 
 Thou' St decked old chiefs of Cornwall s land. 
 To face the fiend with thee they dared ; 
 
 Thou prov'dst a Tirfing in their hand 
 Which victory gave wheneer 'twas bared. 
 
 Though Cornwall's moors 'tzuas ne'er viy lot 
 To viezv, in Eastern Anglia born, 
 
 Yet I Iter son's rude strength have got, 
 And feel of death their fearless scorn. 
 
xviii PREFACE 
 
 Ajid zvhen the foe we have in ken, 
 
 And with my troop I seek the fray, 
 Thoti' It find the youth who wields thee then 
 
 Will ne'er the part of Horace play. 
 
 Meanwhile above my bed's head hang. 
 
 May no vile rust thy sides bestain ; 
 And soon, fidl soon, the war-triimp's clang 
 
 Call me and thee to glory's plaiti. 
 
 These stanzas are interesting in a way which compels 
 one to welcome them, despite the poverty of the verse. 
 The little poem is a fragment of autobiographical yWz;(?«z7za, 
 and moreover it is an original composition, and not a 
 translation, as is the greater part of Borrow's poetical 
 work. 
 
 Up to the present date no Complete Collected Edition of 
 Borrow's Works has been published, either in this country 
 or in America. There is, however, good reason for hoping 
 that this omission will soon be remedied, for such an edition 
 is now in contemplation, to be produced under the agree- 
 able editorship of Mr. Clement Shorter. 
 
 It is, I presume, hardly necessary to note that every 
 Book, Pamphlet, and Magazine dealt with in the following 
 pages has been described de visu. 
 
 T. J. W; 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PART I.— EDITIONES PRINCIPES 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Preface ix 
 
 Celebrated Trials, 1825 3 
 
 Faustus, 1825 4 
 
 Romantic Ballads, 1826 : 
 
 First Issue n 
 
 Second Issue 44 
 
 Third Issue 47 
 
 Targum, 1835 47 
 
 The Talisman, 1835 58 
 
 The Gospel of St. Luke, 1837 62 
 
 The Zincali, 1841 66 
 
 The Bible in Spain, 1843 69 
 
 Review of Ford's " Hand-book for Travellers in 
 
 Spain," 1845 72 
 
 A Supplementary Chapter to " The Bible in Spain," 191 3 81 
 
 Lavengro, 1851 85 
 
XX CONTENTS 
 
 HAGE 
 
 The Romany Rye, 1857 88 
 
 The Sleeping Bard, i860 92 
 
 Wild Wales, 1862 94 
 
 Romano Lavo-Lil, 1874 103 
 
 The Turkish Jester, 1884 no 
 
 The Death of Balder, 1889 11 1 
 
 Letters to the British and Foreign Bible Society, 191 i 113 
 
 Letters to His Wife, Mary Borrow, 191 3 . . . 115 
 
 Marsk Stig, a Ballad, 1913 116 
 
 The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads, 1913 . . 127 
 
 The King's Wake, and Other Ballads, 1913 ... 131 
 
 The Dalby Bear, and Other Ballads, 1913 . . . 139 
 
 The Mermaid's Prophecy, and Other Songs relating 
 
 to Queen Dagmar, 1913 140 
 
 Hafbur and Signe, a Ballad, 1913 144 
 
 The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's Ear, 1913 . 153 
 
 The Verner Raven, The Count of Vendel's Daughter, 
 
 and Other Ballads, 191 3 157 
 
 The Return of the Dead, and Other Ballads, 1913 . 158 
 
 Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg, 191 3 . . . . 165 
 
 King Hacon's Death, and Bran and the Black Dog, 
 
 1913 166 
 
 Marsk Stig's Daughters, and Other Songs and 
 
 Ballads, 1913 170 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 XXI 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and His 
 
 Sister, 1913 177 
 
 Proud Signild, and Other Ballads, 191 3 . . . 181 
 
 Ulf van Yern, and Other Ballads, 1913 .... 182 
 
 Ellen of Villenskov, and Other Ballads, 1913 . . 188 
 
 The Songs of Ranild, 1913 191 
 
 Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne, 1913 . 192 
 
 Child Maidelvold, and Other Ballads, 1913 ... 195 
 
 Ermeline, a Ballad, 191 3 203 
 
 The Gi.\nt of Bern and Orm Ungers\vayne, 1913 . . 207 
 
 Little Engel, A Ballad, 1913 208 
 
 Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne 
 
 Trost, and Other Ballads, 1913 212 
 
 King Diderik and the Fight between the Lion and 
 
 Dragon, and Other Ballads, 1913 215 
 
 The Nightingale, The Valkyrie and Raven, and 
 
 Other Ballads, 1913 219 
 
 Grimmer and Kamper, The End of Sivard Snaren- 
 
 swayne, and Other Ballads, 191 3 223 
 
 The Fountain of Maribo, and Other Ballads, 191 3 . 227 
 
 Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and 
 
 Other Ballads, 191 3 231 
 
 Finnish Arts, Or, Sir Thor and Damsel Thure, 1913 237 
 
 Brown William, The Power of the Harp, and Other 
 
 Ballads, 191 3 238 
 
xxii CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and His Brothers, 
 
 AND Other Ballads, 191 3 244 
 
 Signelil, a Tale from the Cornish, and Other 
 
 Ballads, 1913 247 
 
 Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes, and Other 
 
 Ballads, 1913 251 
 
 Emelian the Fool, 1913 253 
 
 The Story of Tim, 1913 254 
 
 Mollie Charane, and Other Ballads, 1913 . . . 257 
 
 Grimhild's Vengeance, Three Ballads, 1913 . . . 262 
 
 Letters to His Mother, Ann Borrow, 1913 . . .266 
 
 The Brother Avenged, and Other Ballads, 1913 . . 267 
 
 The Gold Horns, 1913 271 
 
 ToRD of Hafsborough, and Other Ballads, 1914 . . 273 
 
 The Expedition to Birting's Land, and Other Ballads, 
 
 1914 275 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Contributions to Periodical Literature, etc. . . 283 
 
 PART III. 
 
 BoRROviANA : Complete A'olumes of Biography and 
 
 Criticism sii 
 
PART I. 
 
 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, etc. 
 
PART I. 
 
 EDITIONES PRINCIPES, etc. 
 
 (I) 
 
 [Celebrated Trials : 1825] 
 
 Celebrated Trials, / and / Remarkable Cases / of / 
 Criminal Jurisprudence, / from / The Earliest 
 Records / to / The Year 1825. / \TIiir teen- line 
 quotation from Burke'] j In Six Volumes. / Vol. I. 
 {Vol. II, &€.] I London : / Printed for Knight and 
 Lacey, / Paternoster- Row. / 1825. / Price £^. \2s. 
 in Boards. 
 
 Collation : — Demy octavo. 
 
 Vol. I. Pp. xiii + v+550, with nine engraved Plates. 
 Vol. II. „ vi + 574, with seven engraved Plates. 
 
 [P. 574 is misnumbered 140.] 
 
 Vol. III. „ vi 4- 572, with three engraved Plates. 
 Vol. IV. „ vi + 600, with five engraved Plates. 
 Vol. V. „ vi + 684, with five engraved Plates. 
 Vol. VI. „ viii + 576 + an Index of 8 pages, 
 together with six engraved Plates. 
 
 Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-labels. 
 The leaves measure 8| x 5 inches. 
 
 B 2 
 
^ BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 I, is evident that no fewer than five different printing houses 
 were employed simultaneously in the production of th.s work 
 
 The preUminary matter of all six volumes was pnnted together 
 anlthe reverse of each title-page carries at foot the following 
 ■mprmt. " Lo,.ion : / Sk.M ani Arrcr.s,ni,K Jokn.cn . Court, 
 
 ^xtf slme firm also worked the whole of the Second Volume, 
 anltherimprint is repeated at the foot of p. 574 [m.s- 
 
 "ToTfj::!: at the foot of p. 550 the following imprint: 
 " Printciby W. Leims, 2 J, Mnch-Lane, Cornhdl. 
 
 Vol m bears, a. the foot of „. 57^. the follow.ng tmpnn. . 
 .- / and C. Adlard, Printers, / Sarthobmew Close. 
 
 Vols. IV and VI bear, at the foot of pages 6co and 576 
 resI^cUvely, the following imprmt :;;/>. Stdney o- Co., 
 P^nfn-^ I Northumherland-street, Strand. 
 
 ^VoT V bears, at the foot of p. 684, the followmg tmpnnt : 
 " Whitm'^ and Branston, \ Beaufort House, Strand 
 
 B r^r KnaOD and Mr. Clement Shorter have recorded full 
 !,a?s of the' genesis of the Cektrated Trials. Mr. Shorter 
 Tv^ col 'derSle portion of Chapter xi of Geor,e Borrow. 
 fjdMs Circle to the subject, and f"™'*" /" *,; /^f 
 contents of each of the six v^umes. ^^^j!^^ 
 rniirse the Neivsate Lives and Trials ot Laven^ru, m _ 
 
 Borrow contrived to make a cor^siderable amount of er^tertaxmng 
 narrative out of his early struggles and failures 
 
 There is a Copy of the First Edition of Celebrated Trials .n 
 the Ltory of the^British Museum. The Press-mark is 5i8.g.6. 
 
 (2) 
 
 [Faustus : 1825] 
 
 Faustus : / His / Life. Death, / and / Descent i^to 
 
 Hell. / Translated from the German, / Sfieed tlue, 
 
FAUSTUS: 
 
 his' 
 LIFE, DEATH, 
 
 AND 
 
 DESCENT INTO HELL. 
 
 TRANSLATED IROM THE OEnMA^f. 
 
 ccrill (hee. 
 U,jMn to the DevU. 
 
 LONDON:^ 
 
 W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL. 
 
 1825. 
 
 J 
 
EDiriONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 
 
 Speed thee, / Liberty lead thee, j Many this ni^ 
 shall harken and heed thee. / Far abroad, / Demi- 
 god, / Who shall appal thee I / Javal, or devil, or 
 ivhat else zue call thee. / Hymn to the Devil. / 
 London : / W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. / 1825. 
 
 Collation : — Foolscap octavo, pp. xii + 251 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with imprint " Printed by / /. and C. 
 Adlard, Bartholomew Close" at the foot of the 
 reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with blank 
 reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Preface (headed The Translator 
 to the Public) pp. v — viii ; Table of Contents 
 pp. ix — xii; and Text pp. I — 251. The reverse 
 of p. 251 is occupied by Advertisements of Horace 
 Welby's Signs before Death, and John Timbs's 
 Pictnresgue Promenade round Dorking. The head- 
 line is Faustus throughout, upon both sides of the 
 page. At the foot of the reverse of p. 251 the 
 imprint is repeated thus, "/. and C. Adlard, 
 BartJwlomeiv Close." The signatures are A (6 leaves), 
 B to Q (15 sheets, each 8 leaves), plus R (6 leaves). 
 
 Issued (in April, 1825) in bright claret-coloured linen 
 boards, with white paper back-label. The leaves measure 
 6| X 4^ inches. The published price was ys. 6d. 
 
 The volume has as Frontispiece a coloured plate, engraved upon 
 copper, representing the supper of the sheep-headed Magistrates, 
 described on pp. 64-66. The incident selected for illustration is 
 the moment when the wine ' issued in blue flames from the 
 flasks,' and ' the whole assembly sat like so many ridiculous 
 characters in a mad masquerade.' This illustration was not new 
 to Borrow's book. It had appeared both in the German original, 
 
8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 and in the French translation of 1798. In the original work the 
 persons so bitterly satirized were the individuals composing the 
 Corporation of Frankfort. 
 
 In 1 840 ' remainder ' copies of the First Edition of Faustus 
 were issued with a new title-page, pasted upon a stub, carrying at 
 foot the following publishers' imprint, " London : / Simpkin, 
 Marshall & Co. / 1840." They were made up in bright claret- 
 coloured linen boards, uniform with the original issue, with a 
 white paper back-label. The published price was again 75. 6d. 
 
 Faustus was translated by Borrow from the German of 
 Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger. Mr. Shorter suggests, with 
 much reason, that Borrow did not make his translation from the 
 original German edition of 1791, but from a French translation 
 published in Amsterdam in 1798. 
 
 The reception accorded to Faustus was the reverse of favourable. 
 The Literary Gazette said {July 16 th, 1825) :^ 
 
 " This is another work to which no respectable publisher ought 
 to have allowed his name to be put. The political allusion and 
 metaphysics, which may have made it popular among a low 
 class in Germany, do not sufficiently season its lewd scenes and 
 coarse descriptions for British palates. We have occasionally 
 publications for the fireside, — these are only fit for the fire." 
 
 Borrow's translation of Klinger's novel was reprinted in 1864, 
 without any acknowledgment of the name of the translator. Only 
 a few stray words in the text were altered. But five passages were 
 deleted from the Preface, which, not being otherwise modified or 
 supplemented, gave — as was no doubt the intention of the pub- 
 lishers — the work the appearance of a new translation specially 
 prepared. This unhallowed edition bears the following title-page : 
 
 Faustus : I His j Life, Death, and Doom. / A Romance in 
 Prose. I Translated from the German. / [Quotation as in the 
 original edition, followed by a Printer's ornament.] / London : / 
 IV. Kent and Co., Paternoster Row. j 1864. — Crown 8vo, 
 pp. viii -t- 302. 
 
r 
 
 ROMANTIC BALLADS, 
 
 TRANSLATED FROM THE DANISH; 
 
 MISCELLANJ^OUS PIECES 
 
 GEORGE BORROW, 
 
 Throusrh -Iciuinv patli. iinknown— 
 Paths ^^ !■,;.■), nnr,,„!,lrn lie, 
 
 From ro. k !» n" k I m.uu 
 Along thf (ia.hiiig s^-.i. 
 
 ^NORWICH: 
 
 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED i!Y S. WII.KIX. L I'PEH HAYMARKET 
 
 1820. 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. ir 
 
 "There is no reason to suppose," remarks Mr, Shorter {^George 
 Borrow and his Circle, p. 1 04) " that the individual, whoever he 
 may have been, who prepared the 1864 edition of Fausius for 
 the Press, had ever seen either the German original or the 
 French translation of Klinger's book." 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of Faustus in the Library 
 of the British Museum. The Press-mark is N.351. 
 
 (3) 
 [Romantic Ballads: 1826] 
 
 Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish ; / 
 and / Miscellaneous Pieces ; / By / George Borrow. / 
 Through gloomy paths zmkiiown — / Paths which 
 untrodden be, / From rock to rock I roam / Along 
 the dashing sea. / Bowring. / Norwich : / Printed 
 and Published by S. Wilkin, Upper Haymarket. / 
 1826. 
 
 Collation: — Demy octavo, pp. xii +187; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with imprint " Noriuich : j Printed by 
 S. Wilkin, Upper Haymarket'' upon the centre of 
 the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above (with 
 blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Table of Contents (with 
 blank reverse) pp. v — vi ; Preface pp. vii — viii ; 
 Prefatory Poem From Allan Cunningham to George 
 Borrozv pp. ix — xi, p. xii is blank ; Text of the 
 Ballads pp. i — 184 ; and List of Subscribers 
 pp. 185 — 187. The reverse of p. 187 is blank. 
 There are head-lines throughout, each page being 
 headed with the title of the Ballad occupying it. 
 
12 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 The imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 184. The 
 signatures are a (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), b (a 
 quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B to M (eleven sheets, 
 each 8 leaves), and N (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), 
 followed by an unsigned quarter-sheet of 2 leaves 
 carrying the List of Subscribers.* Sigs. G 5 and 
 H 2 (pp. 89-90 and 99-100) are cancel-leaves, 
 mounted on stubs, in every copy I have met with. 
 
 * In the majority of the extant copies of the book this List is not present. 
 
 Issued (in May 1826) in dark greenish-grey paper boards, 
 with white paper back-label, lettered " Romantic / Ballads j 
 From the / Danish By j G. Borrow j Price 10/6 net" The 
 leaves measure 9 X 5i inches. 
 
 The volume of Romantic Ballads was printed at Norwich 
 during the early months of 1826. The edition consisted of Five 
 Hundred Copies, but only Two Hundred of these were furnished 
 with the Title-page transcribed above. These were duly dis- 
 tributed to the subscribers. The remaining Three Hundred 
 copies were forwarded to London, where they were supplied with 
 the two successive title-pages described below, and published in 
 the ordinary manner. 
 
 "/ had aft idea that, provided I could persuade any spirited publisher 
 to give these translations to the world, I should acquire both cotzsider- 
 able fame and profit ; not perhaps a world-embracing fame such as 
 Byron^s, but a fame not to be sneered at, which would last me a con- 
 siderable time, and would keep my heart from breakittg ;— profit, not 
 equal to that which Scott had made by his wondrous novels, but which 
 woteld preveftt me from starving, and enable me to achiei/e some other 
 literary enterprise. I read and re-read my ballads, and the 77i07'e I 
 read them the more I was convinced that the public, in the event of 
 their being published, would freely purchase, and hail them ivith merited 
 applause.^'' — ["George Borrow and his Circle," 1913, p. 102.] 
 
 Allan Cunningham's appreciation of the manner in which 
 

 
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EDIT/ONES PRINCIPE S, ETC. 
 
 15 
 
 Borrow had succeeded in his effort to introduce the Danish 
 Ballads to English readers is well expressed in the following 
 letter : 
 
 27, Lower Belgrave Place, 
 London. 
 i6th May, 1826. 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 / like your Danish Ballads much, afid though Oehlenslceger 
 seems a capital poet, L love the old rhymes best. There is more truth 
 and simplicity in them ; and certainly we have nothing in our 
 language to compare with them. . . . 'Sir John' is a capital 
 fellow, and rejninds one of Burns' ' Findlay.' 'Sir Middel' is 
 very natural and affecting, and exceedingly well rendered, — so is 
 ' The Spectre of Hydebee.' Ln this you have kept up the true tone 
 of the Northern Ballad. ' Svend Vonved ' is wild and poetical, 
 and it is my favourite. You ffiust not think me insensible to the 
 merits of the incomparable ' Skimming.' L think I hear his neigh, 
 and see him crush the ribs of the Jute. Get out of bed, therefore, 
 George Borrow, and be sick or sleepy no longer. A fellow who can 
 give us such exquisite Danish Ballads has no right to repose. . . . 
 / re?nain. 
 
 Your very faithful friend, 
 
 Allan Cunningham. 
 Co?itents. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Introductory Verses. By Allan Cunningham. [Sittg, sitig, 
 
 my friend; breathe life again] ix 
 
 The Death-Raven. [ The silken sail, which caught the summer 
 
 breeze] i 
 
 I give herewith a reduced facsimile of the first page of the original 
 Manuscript of this Ballad. No other MS. of it is knovifn to be 
 
 Fridleif and Helga. [ The woods were in leaf, afid they cast a 
 
 sweet shade] 21 
 
 Sir Middel. [So tightly was Swanelil lacing her vest] ... 28 
 
1 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Previously printed (under the title Skion Middel, the first line reading, 
 " The maiden was lacing so tightly her vest") in The Monthly 
 Magazine, November 1823, p. 308. Apart from the opening 
 line, the text of the two versions (with the exception of a few 
 trifling verbal changes) is identical. 
 
 Another, but widely different, version of this Ballad is printed in 
 Child Maidelvold and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 5-10. In this 
 latter version the name of the heroine is SidseUl in place of 
 Swanelil, and that of the hero is Child Maidelvold in place of 
 Sir Middel. 
 
 Elvir-Shades. [A sultry eve pursu d a sultry day'] .... 32 
 
 Considerable differences are to be observed between the text of the 
 Manuscript of Elvir-Shades and that of the printed version. 
 For example, as printed the second stanza reads : 
 
 / spurr'd my courser, and more swiftly rode. 
 
 In moody silence, through the forests green, 
 
 JVhere doves and linnets had their lone abode. 
 
 In the Manuscript it reads : 
 
 Immers'd in pleasing pensiveness 1 rode 
 
 Down vistas dim, and glades of foi'est green. 
 Where doves and nightingales had their abode. 
 
 The Heddybee-Spectre. \_I clo7/ih in haste 7ny dappled steed] 37 
 
 In 1829 Borrow discarded his original(i826) version of The Heddybee- 
 Spectre, and made an entirely new translation. This was written 
 in couplets, with a refrain repeated after each. In 1854 the 
 latter version was revised, and represents the final text. It 
 commences thus : 
 
 At evening fall I chanced to ride. 
 My courser to a tree I tied. 
 So wide thereof the story goes. 
 
 Against a stu77ip my head I laid. 
 And then to slumber I essay'' d 
 So wide thereof the story goes. 
 
 From the Manuscript of 1854 the ballad was printed (under the 
 amended title The Heddeby Spectre) in Signelil, A Talefi'om the 
 Cornish, and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 22-24. Borrow after- 
 wards described the present early version as ' a paraphrase. ' 
 
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 anv. hrU-V. ''iVwMv rtV-M^tnd' 
 
 ^mud ^AT '.'hi djo^ ia-i ^-fk 
 
 Gfi i^'J\ ni ^^.v ^Kt A fciU iMli ^ 
 
 ^iw. 
 
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 mil ^ /,;| \:: mustts^PM 
 •^irf Ihi Cwnf al» Vav4 ,WIv\v 
 
 \y^\ \y\i\ -^ /;| ';-. 'ft&'r 
 
EDITIONES PR INC /PES, ETC. 19 
 
 Sir John. [Sir Lave to ihe island stray' d\ 40 
 
 There is extant a Manuscript of Sir John which apparently belongs 
 to an earlier date than 1826. The text differs considerably from 
 that of the Romantic Ballads. I give a few stanzas of each. 
 
 1826. 
 
 The servants led her then to bed. 
 But could not loose her girdle red ! 
 " I can, perhaps,^' said John. 
 
 He shut the door with all his might ; 
 Be locked it fast, and quencWd the light : 
 "/ shall sleep here," said John. 
 
 A se)-vant to Sir Lavi hied: — 
 
 " Sir John is sleeping with the bride : " 
 
 "Aye, that I am," said John. 
 
 Sir Lavi to the chamber flew : 
 
 " Arise, and straight the door undo ! " 
 
 '* A likely thing! " said John. 
 
 He struck with shield, he struck with spear — 
 " Come out, thou Dog, and fight me here ! " 
 "Another time, " said John. 
 
 Early MS. 
 
 They carried the bride to the bridal bed. 
 But to loose her girdle ne'er entered their head — 
 "Be that my care," said John. 
 
 Sir John locked the door as fast as he might : 
 " / wish Sir Lavi a very good night, 
 I shall sleep here" said John. 
 
 A messenger to Sir Lavi hied : 
 ' ' Sir John is sleeping with thy young bride ! " 
 " Aye, that I am ! " said John. 
 
 On the door Sir Lavi struck with his glove : 
 ' ' Arise, Sir John, let tne in to my love ! " 
 ^^ Stand out, you dog! " said John. 
 
 He struck on the door with shield and spear : 
 " Cofne out. Sir John, and fight me here ! " 
 " See if I do ! " said John. 
 
20 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 May Asda. \May Asia is gone to the merry green wood] . . 44 
 Aager and Eliza. \Have ye heard of bold Sir Aager] ... 47 
 Saint Oluf. \St. Oluf ivas a mighty king\ 53 
 
 Oi Saint C/z// there are three MSS. extant, the first written in 1826, 
 the second in 1829, and the third in 1854. In the two later 
 MSS. the title given to the Ballad is Saint Oluf and the Trolds. 
 As the latest MS. affords the final text of the Poem, I give a few 
 of the variants between it and the printed version of 1 826. 
 
 1826. 
 
 St. Ohf built a lofty ship. 
 With sails of silk so fair ; 
 " To Hornelummer I must go. 
 And see what's passing there." 
 
 " O do not go,'' the seamen said, 
 " To yonder fatal grotmd. 
 Where savage futts, and wicked elves, 
 And demon sprites, abound." 
 
 St. Oluf climb' d the vessel's side ; 
 
 His courage nought could tame ! 
 
 ^^ Heave up, heave tip the anchor straight : 
 
 Let's go inJestCs name. 
 
 " The cross shall be my faulchion now — 
 The book of God my shield ; 
 And, arm'd with them, I hope and trust 
 To make the demons yield." 
 
 And swift, as eagle cleaves the sky. 
 
 The gallant vessel flew : 
 Direct for Horneluinmer' s rock. 
 
 Through ocean's wavy blue. 
 
 'Twas early in the morning tide 
 When she cast anchor there ; 
 Andy lo! the Jut t stood on the cliff. 
 To breathe the morning air : 
 
 His eyes were like the burning beat — 
 His mouth was all awry ; 
 The truth I tell, and say he stood 
 Full twenty cubits high. 
 

 ^Atrw. 
 
 PK''^ \ U ■> V \ 
 
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EDITION ES P RING I PES, ETC. 23 
 
 ' ' Be still, be still, thou noisy guest — 
 Be still for evennore ; 
 Become a rock and beetle there. 
 Above the billows hoar." 
 
 Up started then, from out the hill. 
 The de/non's hoary wife ; 
 She ciirs'd the king a thousand times. 
 And brandislCd high her knife. 
 
 Sore ■wonder' d then the little elves. 
 Who sat within the hill, 
 To see their mother, all at once, 
 Statid likewise stiffs and still. 
 
 1854. 
 
 Saint Oltif caused a ship be built. 
 
 At Marsirand so fair ; 
 To Hornelummer he'll away. 
 
 And see whafs passing there. 
 
 Then answer made the steersman old. 
 
 Beside the helm who stood: 
 ^^ At Hornelummer swarm the Trolas, 
 
 It is no haven good." 
 
 The king replied in gallant guise. 
 
 And sprang tipon the prow : 
 " Upon the Ox^ the cable cast, 
 
 Injesu's name let go ! " 
 
 The Ox he pants, the Ox he snorts. 
 
 And bravely cutslthe swell — 
 To Hornelummer in they sail 
 
 The ugly Trolds to quell. 
 
 Thejutt was standitig on the cliff, 
 
 Which raises high its brow ; 
 And thence he saw Saint Oluf and 
 
 The Ox beneath him go. 
 
 His eyes were like a burning beal. 
 
 His 7nouth was all awry. 
 The nails which feve'd his fingers' ends 
 
 Stuck out so wondrously. 
 
 ^ The name of the ship. 
 
24 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 ^^ Now hold thy peace, thou foulest fiend. 
 
 And changed he to stone ; 
 Do thou stand there 'till day of doom, 
 
 And injury do to none.'" 
 
 Then out came running from the hill 
 
 The car line old and grey ; 
 She cursed the King a thousand times. 
 
 And bade him sail away. 
 
 Then wondered much the little Trolds, 
 
 Who sat within the hill. 
 To see their mother all at once 
 
 Stand likewise stiff and still. 
 
 The entire ballad should be compared with King Oliif the Saint, 
 printed in Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams, and 
 Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 23 — 29. 
 
 The Heroes of Dovrefeld. \<Dn Dovrefeld, in Norway'] . . 58 
 
 Another version of The Heroes of Dovrefeld, written in 1854, is 
 extant in manuscript. Unlike that of 1826, which was in four- 
 line stanzas, this later version is arranged in couplets, with a 
 refrain repeated after each. It commences as follows : 
 
 On Dovrefeld in Norroway. 
 Free from care the warriors lay. 
 
 Who knows like us to rhytne and rujie ? 
 
 Twelve bold warriors there were seen. 
 Brothers of Ingeborg the Queen. 
 
 Who knows like us to rhyme and rune ? 
 
 The first the rushittg storm could turn. 
 The second could still the running burn. 
 
 IVho knows like us to rhyme and rune ? 
 
 Svend Vonved. [Sve?id Vofived sits in his lonely bower] . . 61 
 
 In a Manuscript of 1830 the name employed is Swayne Vonved. 
 There is no 1854 Manuscript of this Ballad. 
 
 The Tournament. [^Six score there were, six score and ten] . 82 
 
 The Tournament was one of the Ballads entirely rewritten by Borrow 
 in 1854 for inclusion in the then projected Kcempe Viser. The 
 text of the later version differed greatly from that of 1826, as the 
 following extracts will show : 
 
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 M; 
 
 'U^MinLM^t^ 
 
 
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 Svend Vonved—iS^o 
 
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EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 27 
 
 1826. 
 
 Six score there 7vere, six score and ieu, 
 
 From Hald that rode that day ; 
 And when they came to Brattingsborg 
 
 They pitcKd their pavilion gay. 
 
 King Nilaus stood on the turret's top, 
 
 Had all around in sight : 
 " U7iy hold those heroes their lives so cheap. 
 
 That it lists them here to fight ? 
 
 "Now, hear me, Sivard Snaresvend ; 
 
 Far hast thou rov'd, and wide. 
 Those warriors' weapons thoti shall prove. 
 
 To their tent thou must straightway ridt." 
 
 There shine upon the eighteetith shield 
 
 A man, and a fierce wild boar. 
 Are borne by the Count of Lidebierg ; 
 
 His blows fall heavy and sore. 
 
 There shines upon the twentieth shield. 
 
 Among branches, a rose, so gay ; 
 Wherever Sir Nordman comes in war, 
 
 He bears bright honour away. 
 
 There shines on the one-and-twentieth shield 
 
 A vase, and of copper 'tis made ; 
 That's borne by Mogan Sir Olgerson : 
 
 He wins broad lands with his blade. 
 
 And now covies forth the next good shield, 
 
 With a sun dispelling the tnirk ; 
 And that by Asbiorn Mildi is borne ; 
 
 He sets the knights' backs at work. 
 
 Now comes the foicr-and-twentieth shield, 
 
 And a bright sword there you see ; 
 And that by Humble Sirjerfing is borne ; 
 
 Full tvorthy of that is he. 
 
 Sir Humble struck his hand on the board ; 
 
 No longer he lists to play : 
 I tell you, forsooth, that the rosy hue 
 
 From his cheek fast faded away. 
 
28 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 ' ' Now, hear me, Vidrik Verlandson ; 
 
 Thoii art so free a man ; 
 Do lend me Skimming, thy horse, this day ; 
 
 r II pledge for him what I can." 
 
 In came Humble, with boot and spur. 
 He cast on the table his sword: 
 
 ' ' Sivard stands in the green wood bound. 
 He speaks not a single word. 
 
 '■'■ 0, I have been to the wild forest. 
 And have seized the warrior stark ; 
 
 Sivard there was taken by me, 
 
 And tied to the oak's rough bark.'''' 
 
 The queen she sat in the high, high loft. 
 And thence looked far and -wide : 
 
 " O there comes Sivard Snaresvend, 
 With a stately oak at his side. " 
 
 Then loud laugh'' d fair Queen Gloriant, 
 As she look'd on Sivard full : 
 
 " Thou wert, no doubt, in great, gi-eat need, 
 IVhen thou such flowers didst pull''' 
 
 1854. 
 
 There were seven and seven times twenty 
 Away from Hald that went ; 
 
 And when they came to Brattingsborg 
 There pitch' d they up their tent. 
 
 King Nilaus stood on the turret's top. 
 
 Had all around itt sight : 
 " If yonder host comes here to joust 
 
 They hold their lives but light. 
 
 '^ Now, hear me, Sivard Snarenswayne, 
 
 One thing I crave of thee ; 
 To meet them go, for 1 would know 
 
 Their arms, and who they be." 
 
 There shine upon the eighteenth shield 
 
 A Giant and a Soza ; 
 Who deals worse blows amidst his foes, 
 
 Count Lideberg, than thou ? 
 
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 ''' W ^p\i\\ WA IV(\\\.\ 'dtVu r« \Mut 
 
 ''HlVv^ i^^iM ovv w4i ^vu^ Sk. 
 \d hA L ^^tjA W fli'V-. 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 31 
 
 Wherever Sir Nordiitan comes in war 
 
 He winnclh fame in field ; 
 Yon blooming rose and verdant boughs 
 
 Adorn the twentieth shield. 
 
 A copper kettle, fairly wrought. 
 
 Upon the next you see ; 
 'Tis borne by one who realms has won, 
 
 Sir Mogan good, by thee ! 
 
 Forth comes the txvo-and-twentieth shield, 
 
 A sun mid mist and smoke ; 
 Of wrestler line full many a spine 
 
 Has Asborn Milday broke. 
 
 A glittering faulchioji shines upon 
 
 The four-and-tzventielh shield ; 
 And that doth bear Sir Jerfin^ s heir. 
 
 He's 7vorthy it to wield. 
 
 Voting Humble struck his hand on the board. 
 
 No longer he lists to play ; 
 I tell to you that the rosy hue 
 
 From his cheek fast fled away. 
 
 *^ Now hear tne, Vidrik Verlandson, 
 
 Thou art a titan so free ; 
 Lend me thy horse to ride this cotirse. 
 
 Grey Skimming lend to me." 
 
 In came Humble, with boot and spur. 
 
 On the table cast his sword : 
 " ''Neath the green-wood botigh stands Sivard now, 
 
 He speaketh not a word. 
 
 '^ 0, I have been to the forest wild. 
 
 And have seized the warrior good: 
 These hands did chaitt the Snarenswayne 
 
 To the oak's bark in the wood.'' 
 
 The Qtteen she sat in the chamber high. 
 And thence look' d far and wide : 
 
 ' ' Across the plain comes the Snarenswayne, 
 With an oak-tree at his side." 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Then loud laughed fair Queen Ellinore, 
 
 As she looked 071 Sivardfull: 
 " Thou wast, I guess, in sore distress 
 
 When thou such flowers didst pull ! " 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of the 1854 
 version of The Tournament will be found herewith, facing 
 page 28. 
 
 Vidrik Verlandson. {^King Diderik sits i?i iJie halls of Ber7i\ 98 
 
 Vidrik Verlandson was another of the Ballads entirely re-written by 
 Borrow in 1854 for the proposed Kcempe Viser. The text of 
 the later version differed extremely from that of 1826, as the 
 following examples will shew : 
 
 1826. 
 
 " A handsome smith my father was. 
 
 And Verland hight was he : 
 Bodild they calPd my mother fair ; 
 
 Queen over countries three : 
 
 " Skimtning I call my noble steed. 
 
 Begot from the wild sea-mare : 
 Blank do I call my haughty helm. 
 
 Because it glitters so fair : 
 
 " Skrepping I call my good thick shield ; 
 
 Steel shafts have fta-row'' d it o'er : 
 Mimmering have I nam^d my sword ; 
 
 ' Tis hardened in heroes^ gore : 
 
 - " And I am Vidrik Verlandso7i ; 
 For clothes bright iron I wear : 
 StancTst thou fiot up on thy long, long legs, 
 ni pin thee down to thy lair: 
 
 " Do thou stand up on thy long, long legs. 
 
 Nor look so dogged and grim ; 
 The King holds out before the wood ; 
 
 Thou shall yield thy treasure to hitn." 
 
 " All, all the gold that I possess, 
 
 I will keep with great rettown ; 
 r II yield it at no little horse-boy's word. 
 
 To the best king wearing a crow7i.^' 
 
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 Vidri'k Ver/attdson—i8S4- 
 
EDIT! ONES P RING I PES, ETC. 
 
 " So young and little as here I seem, 
 
 Thou shall find me prompt in a fray ; 
 ril hew the head from thy shoulders off. 
 And thy much gold hear aivay." 
 
 It was Langben the lofty full. 
 
 He wav'd his steel mace round ; 
 He sent a blow after Vidrik ; 
 
 Btit the mace struck deep in the grotind. 
 
 It was Langben the lofty Jutt, 
 
 Who had thought his foeman to slay. 
 
 But the blow fell short of Vidrik ; 
 For the good horse bore him atvay. 
 
 It was Langben the lofty Jutt, 
 
 That shouted in wild despair : 
 " JVow lies my mace in the hillock fast, 
 
 As though Hwere hammer' d in there ! " 
 
 " Accursed be thou, young Vidrik ! 
 
 And accursed thy piercing steel! 
 Thou hast given me, see, a wound in my breast. 
 
 Whence rise the pains I feel.'" 
 
 ^^ Now hear, now hear, thou warrior youth. 
 Thou canst tvheel thy courser about ; 
 
 But in every feat of manly strength 
 I could beat thee out and out. " 
 
 1854. 
 
 " My father was a smith by trade. 
 
 And Verland Smith he hight ; 
 Bodild they caWd my tnother dear, 
 
 A monarches daughter bright. 
 
 " Blank do I call my helm, thereon 
 
 Full many a sword has snapped ; 
 Skrepping I call my shield, thereon 
 
 Full many a shaft has rapped. 
 
 ' ' Skimming I call my steed, begot 
 
 From the wild mare of the wood ; 
 Mimmering have I named viy sword, 
 
 ' T/s hardened in heroes'' blood. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 "■^ And I am Viderik Verlandson, 
 
 Bright steel for clothes I wear ; 
 Stand up on thy lottg legs, or I \ 
 
 Will pin thee to thy lair ! \ 
 
 " Stand up on thy long legs, nor look 
 
 So dogged and so grim ; j 
 
 The King doth hold before the wood, | 
 
 Thy treasure yield to him / " ' i 
 
 " Whatever gold I here possess , 
 
 III keep, like a Kemp of worth ; 
 ni yield it at no horseboy's word 
 
 To any King on earth ! " ; 
 
 ' ' So young and little as I seem \ 
 
 Tm active in a fray ; I 
 
 ni hew thy head, thou lubbard, off. 
 And bear thy gold away I 
 
 It was Langben the Giant waved 
 
 His steely mace around ; 
 He sent a blow at Vidrik, but 
 
 The mace struck deep in the ground. 
 
 It was Langben, the lofty Jutt, 
 
 Had thought his foe to slay ; 
 But the blow fell short, for the speedy horse 
 
 His master bore away. 
 
 It was Langben, the lofty Jutt, 
 
 He bellow' d to the heaven : 
 " My mace is tight within the height. 
 
 As though by a hammer driven ! " 
 
 Accurs'd be thou, young Vidrik ! 
 
 Accursed be thy steel! 
 Thou'st given fjie a mighty wound. 
 
 And mighty pain I feel. 
 
 * * * 
 
 ' ' Now hear, now hear, thou warrior youth, 
 Thou well canst wheel thy steed ; 
 
 But I could beat thee out and out 
 In every manly deed." 
 
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 ^AOH^VW 'A^Vnlu V.'int :t'ji'**n !i:/\i Vft'. ':i^! Sh »>. H'.cinl Ya'ii l^^^^;;;^ . 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 39 
 
 PACiF. 
 
 In Romantic Ballads, and also in the Manuscript (if 1854, this Ballad 
 is entitled Jldrik Verlandsoti. In the Manuscript of 1829 it is 
 entitled Vidrik Verlandsoti s Conflict with the Giant Langben. 
 The text of this Manuscript is intermediate between that of the 
 other two versions. 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of the 1854 
 version of Vidrik Verlandson is given herewith, facing p. 35. 
 
 Elvir Hill. [/ rested my head upon Elvir HilPs side, and my 
 
 eyes were beginning to slumber'] 1 1 1 
 
 In the Manuscript of 1829 this Ballad is entitled Elfin Hill, and the 
 text differs considerably from that printed in 1826. I give the 
 opening stanzas of each version. 
 
 1826. 
 / rested viy head upon Elvir HiW s side, and my eyes -were beginning 
 
 to slumber : 
 That moment there rose up before me two maids, whose charms 
 
 would take ages to number. 
 
 One patted my face, and the other exclaimed, while loading my cheek 
 with her kisses, 
 
 '■'Rise, rise, for to dance with you here we have sped from the under- 
 most caves and abysses. 
 
 ''Rise, fair-haired swain, and refuse not to dance ; and I and my 
 
 sister will sing thee 
 The loveliest ditties that ever were heard, and the prettiest presents 
 
 will bring thee." 
 Then both of them sang so delightful a song, that the boisterous river 
 
 before us 
 Stood suddenly quiet and placid, as though 'twere afraid to disturb 
 
 the sweet chorus. 
 
 1829. 
 / rested my head upon Elfin Hill, on mine eyes was slumber 
 
 descending; 
 That moment there rose up before me ttvo maids, zvith me to discourse 
 
 intending. 
 
 The one kissed me on my cheek so white, the other she whispered mine 
 
 ear in : 
 "Arise, arise, thou beautiful swain! for thou our dance must 
 
 share in. 
 
40 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 " Wake up, wake tip, thou beau ft fid swain ! rise and dance ''mongst 
 
 the verdant grasses ; 
 And to sing thee the sweetest of their songs I'll bid my elfin lasses." 
 
 To sing a song then one began, in voice so sweet and mellow. 
 The boisterojts stream zvas stilPd thereby, that before was wont to 
 bellow. 
 
 Waldemar's Chase. \^Late at eve they were toilmg on Harribee 
 
 bank\ 115 
 
 Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, August 1824, p. 21. 
 
 The Merman. \Do thou, dear mother, cofitrive amain] . . 117 
 
 A later, and greatly improved, version of this Ballad was included, 
 under the title The Treacherous Merman, in The Serpent Knight 
 and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 15-17. An early draft of this 
 later version bears the title Marsh Stig's Daughter. 
 
 The Deceived Merman. \^Fair Agnes alone on the sea-shore 
 
 stood] 120 
 
 Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, March 1825, 
 pp. 143-144. 
 
 Cantata. \_This is Den7/iark's holyday] 127 
 
 The Hail-Storm. ^Wheii from otir ships we bounded] ... 136 
 
 The Hail Storm was reprinted in Targiim, 1835, pp. 42-43, and 
 again in Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes and Other 
 Ballads, 1913, pp. 14-15. In each instance very considerable 
 variations were introduced into the text. 
 
 The Elder- Witch. \Though tall tJie oak, and firm its stem] . 139 
 Ode. From the Gselic. [Oh restless, to night, are my slumbers] 142 
 Bear Song. \The squirrel thafs sporting] 144 
 
 Previously printed, with some trifling differences in the text, in The 
 Monthly Magazine, December, 1824, p. 432. 
 
 National Song. {King Christian stood beside the mast] . . 146 
 
 Previously printed (under the title "Sea Song ; from the Danish of 
 Evald") in The Monthly Magazine, December, 1823, p. 437. 
 
 The Old Oak. \_Here have I stood, the pride of the park] . . 149 
 

 
 if'M.J Hvw 
 
 (\^wiwrir4w^"j 
 
 ' f^ fr\\A m\ A^W vnltV ^m. Vtt^-. 
 
ED/TIONES PR INC! PES, ETC. 43 
 
 TAGF. 
 
 Lines to Six-Foot Three. [A lad, wJio twenty toni^^ues can talk\ 1 5 1 
 Nature's Temperaments : 
 
 1 . Sadness. \_Lo, a pallid fleecy vapour] 155 
 
 2. Glee. \Roseate colours on heaven' s high arc]i\ .... 156 
 
 3. Madness. [ What darkens, what darkens?— 'tis heaven's 
 
 hi^h roof] 158 
 
 In a revised Manuscript of uncertain date, but c 1860-70, this 
 poem is entitled Hecla and Etna, the first line reading : 
 
 " What darkens ? It is the wide airh of the sky." 
 
 The Violet-Gatherer. [Pale the moon her light was shedding] 159 
 Ode to a Mountain-Torrent. \_Hotii lovely art thou in thy 
 
 tresses of foani] 164 
 
 Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, October, 1823, p. 244. 
 In The Monthly Magazine the eighth stanza reads : 
 
 O pause for a time,^for a short moment stay ; 
 
 Stilt art thou streaming,— my words are in vain ; 
 Oft-clianging winds, witli tyrannical sway. 
 
 Lord there below on tJie time-sei-ving main ! 
 
 In Romantic Ballads it reads : 
 
 Abandon, abandon, thy headlong career — 
 
 But downward thou rushest — }ny words are in vain. 
 
 Bethink thee that oft-changing winds domineer 
 On the billowy breast of the time-serving main. 
 
 Runic Verses. \_0 the force of Rnttic verses'] 167 
 
 Thoughts on Death. [Perhaps f is folly, but still I feel] . . 169 
 
 Previously printed (under the tentative title Death, and with some 
 small textual variations) in The Monthly Magazine, October, 
 1823, p. 245. 
 
 Birds of Passage. [So hot shinies the sufi upon Nile's yellow 
 
 streani] 171 
 
 The Broken Harp. [O thou, who, 'mid the fo7-est trees] . . 173 
 
 Scenes. [Observe ye not yon high clip's brow] 175 
 
44 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Suicide's Grave. \The evening shadows fall upon the 
 
 £mve] • . . . . 182 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is at present no copy of the First Issue of the First 
 Edition of Romantic Ballads, with the original Title-page, in the 
 Library of the British Museum. 
 
 Second Issue : 1826 
 
 Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish ; / 
 and / Miscellaneous Pieces ; / By / George Borrow. / 
 Throttgh gloomy paths unknoivn — / Paths which 
 tmtrodden be, / From rock to rock I roam / Along 
 the dashing sea. j Bowring. / London : / John Taylor. 
 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, / 1826. 
 
 Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187. The details of 
 the collation follow those of the First Issue 
 described above in every particular, save that , 
 naturally, the volume lacks the two concluding 
 leaves carrying the List of Subscribers. 
 
 Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back- 
 label. The published price was Seven Shillings. 
 
 " Taylor will u?idertake to publish the remai?iing copies. His 
 advice is to make the price seven shillings, and to print a fiew title- 
 page, and then he 7vill be able to sell some for you. I advise the 
 sajne," etc. — [Allan Cunningham to George Borrow.] 
 
 There is a copy of the Second Issue of the First Edition of 
 Roma7itic Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The 
 Press-mark is 11565. cc. 8. 
 
OR 
 
 METRICAL TRANSLATIONS 
 AND 
 
 ^^(0t^i 'Mf))OXt0tt), 
 
 ;; T/te rav€7i has ascended to the nett of the nightingale. 
 
 Persian Poem. 
 
 nrgMiM-»;^g§<S 
 
 St.-Pe tersburg. 
 
 PRINTED BY ScHULZ AND BeNEZE. 
 
 183 5. 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 47 
 
 Third Issue: 1826 
 
 Romantic Ballads, / Translated from the Danish ; / 
 and / Miscellaneous Pieces ;/ By/ George Borrow. / 
 Through gloomy paths unknown — / Paths which 
 untrodden be, / From rock to rock I roam / Along the 
 dashing sea. / Bowring. / London : / Published by 
 Wightman and Cramp, / 24 Paternoster Row. / 
 1826. 
 
 Collation: — Demy octavo, pp. xii + 187. The details of 
 the collation follow those of the Second Issue 
 described above in every particular. 
 
 Issued in drab paper boards, with white paper back-label. 
 The price was again Seven Shillings. 
 
 In 19 13 a type-facsimile reprint of the Original Edition of 
 Ro7nantic Ballads was published by Messrs. Jarrold and Sons of 
 Norwich. Three hundred Copies were printed. 
 
 (4) 
 [Targum : 1835] 
 
 Targum. / Or / Metrical Translations / From Thirty 
 Languages / and / Dialects. / By / George Borrow. / 
 " The raven has ascended to the nest of the nightin- 
 gale^ I Persian Poem. / St. Petersburg. / Printed 
 by Schulz and Beneze. / 1835. 
 
 Collation : — Demy octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. viii + 
 106; consisting of: Title-page, as above (with 
 
48 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 a Russian quotation upon the centre of the reverse) 
 pp. i — ii ; Preface pp. iii — v ; Table of Contents pp. 
 vi— viii, with a single Erratum at the foot of p. viii ; 
 and Text of the Translations pp. i — io6. There 
 are no head-lines, the pages being numbered cen- 
 trally in Arabic numerals. Beyond that upon the 
 foot of the title-page, there is no imprint. The 
 signatures are given in large Arabic numerals, each 
 pair of half-sheets dividing one number between 
 them; thus the first half-sheet is signed i, the 
 second i*, the third 2, the fourth 2*, &c. The 
 Register is therefore i to 7 (thirteen half-sheets, 
 each 4 leaves), followed by a single unsigned leaf 
 (pp. 105 — 106), the whole preceded by an unsigned 
 half-sheet carrying the Title-page, Preface, and 
 Table of Contents. The book was issued without 
 any half-title. 
 
 Issued in plain paper wrappers of a bright green colour, 
 lined with white, and without either lettering or label. The 
 leaves measure 8^^ X 5j inches. 
 
 Borrow was happy in the title he selected for his book. Targum, 
 as Mr. Gosse has pointed out, is a Chaldee word meaning an 
 interpretation. The word is said to be the root of 'dragoman.' 
 
 Targum was written by Borrow during his two years' residence 
 at St. Petersburg (August, 1833, to August, 1835), and was 
 published in June of the latter year. One hundred copies only 
 were printed. As might naturally be expected the book has now 
 become of very considerable rarity, but a small proportion 
 of the original hundred copies being traceable to-day. 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the Title-page is given herewith. 
 
 "Just before completing this great work, the Manchi New 
 Testament, Mr. Borrow published a small volume in the English 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 49 
 
 language, entitled Targiim, or Metrical Translations from Thirty 
 Languages and Dialects. The exquisite delicacy with which he 
 has caught and rendered the beauties of his well-chosen originals, 
 is a proof of his learning and genius. The work is a pearl in 
 literature, and, like pearls, it derives value from its scarcity, for 
 the whole edition was limited to about a hundred copies." — 
 \^John P. Hasfeld, in The Athenceum, March ^th, 1836.] 
 
 " Some days ago I was at Kirtofs bookshop on the Gaternaya 
 Ulitza. I wanted to buy a Bible in Spain to send to Simbirsk (on 
 the Volga), where they torment me for it every post-day. The 
 stock was all sold out in a few days after its arrival last autumn. 
 The bookseller asked me if I knew a book by Borrow called 
 Targum, which was understood to have been written by him and 
 printed at St. Petersburg, but he had never been able to light 
 upon it ; and the surprising thing was that the trade abroad and 
 even in England did him the honour to order it. I consoled him 
 by saying that he could hardly hope to see a copy in his shop or 
 to get a peep at it. ' I have a copy,' continued I, ' but if you will 
 offer me a thousand roubles for the bare reading of it I cannot 
 do you the favour.' The man opened his eyes in astonishment. 
 ' It must be a wonderful book,' said he. ' Yes, in that you are 
 right, my good friend,' I replied." — [John P. Hasfeld.'] 
 
 " After he became famous the Russian Government was 
 desirous of procuring a copy of this rare book, Targum, for the 
 Imperial Library, and sent an Envoy to England for the purpose. 
 But the Envoy was refused what he sought, and told that as the 
 book was not worth notice when the author's name was obscure 
 and they had the opportunity of obtaining it themselves, they 
 should not have it now."— [^. Egmont Hake, in The Athenceum, 
 August i2,th, 1 88 1.] 
 
 Cofitents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ode to God. {^Reigti'd the Universe's Master ere ivere earthly 
 
 things begun] i 
 
 Borrow reprinted this Ode in The Bible in Spain, 1843, Vol. iii, p. 333. 
 
50 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Prayer. \^0 Thou ulio dost know what the heart fain would 
 
 hide\ 2 
 
 Death. \Grim Death in his shroud stvatheth mortals each 
 
 hour] 3. 
 
 Stanzas. On a Fountain. [/;/ the fount fell my tears, like 
 
 rain] 4 
 
 Stanzas. The Pursued. \^How W7-etched roams the weary 
 
 wight] 4 
 
 Odes. From the Persian : 
 
 1. \^Boy, hand my friends the cup, 'tis time of roses now] . 5 
 
 2. [If shedding lovers' blood thou deem'st a matter slight] . 5 
 
 3. \^0 thou, whose egiial mind knows no vexation] .... 6 
 Stanzas. From the Turkish of FezouH. [6> Fezouli, the 
 
 hour is near] 7 
 
 Description of Paradise. [Eight Gennets there be, as some 
 
 relate] 8 
 
 O Lord ! I nothing crave but Thee. [O Thou, from ivhom 
 
 all love doth flow] 11 
 
 Mystical Poem. Relating to the worship of the Great 
 
 Foutsa or Buddh. \Should I Fotitsa' s force and glory"] . 13 
 Moral Metaphors : 
 
 1. \From out the South the genial breezes sigh^^ 19 
 
 2. [Survey, survey Gi Shoi's 7nurmuring flood .'] .... 20 
 The Mountain-Chase. \_Autmnn has fled atid winter left 
 
 our bounds] . 21 
 
 The Glory of the Cossacks. [Quiet Don I] 24 
 
 The Black Shawl. [On the shawl, the black shawl with dis- 
 
 tractioti I gaze] 27 
 
 Song. From the Russian of Pushkin. [Hoary man, hateful 
 
 mail !] 29 
 
 The Cossack. An ancient Ballad. [O'er the field the snow 
 
 isflying] 30 
 
 The Three Sons of Budrys. [ With his three mighty sons, 
 
 tall as Ledwin's were once] 32 
 
I 1 111! 'ioWi:t^vicii . 
 
 IdJij^'WAt 'HrrC^viiwy^ *WIKwi\ 
 
 ^ r , ^ 'l • , • 
 
 'lint' b*'^ ''^«o J'»v.;^i dmtVAi ; 
 
 SUV rs- vvv'^i 
 
 ■....V .niv»k; .win,v JK.',) J,^ yVI I 
 
 ^invliu r\W mi^i^^iH , 
 
 I' 
 
 .rv'/ift'/. 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 53 
 
 I'AGE 
 
 The Banning of the Pest. \Hie azvay, thou horrid monster 1^ 35 
 
 Woinomoinen. \Then the ancient Woinomoinen^ 37 
 
 The ^^'ords of Beowulf, Son of Egtheof. [Every ofie beneath 
 
 the heaven^ 39 
 
 The Lay of Biarke. [ The day iti East is glowing\ .... 40 
 
 The title of this Ballad as it appears in the original MS. is The 
 Biarkemal. 
 
 The Hail-storni. [For vidoty as we bounded'] 42 
 
 Previously printed (but with very considerable variations in the text, 
 the first line reading " When from our ships we bounded") in 
 Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 136- 138. A final version of the 
 Ballad, written about 1854, was printed in Young Swaigder or 
 The Force of Runes and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 14-15. 
 
 The King and Crown. [The King who well crown' d does 
 
 govern the land] 44 
 
 Ode To a Mountain Torrent. \0 stripling immortal thou 
 
 forth dost career] 45 
 
 Previously printed (but with an entirely different text, the first line 
 reading '■^ How lovely art thou hi thy tresses of foam^'') in The 
 Monthly Magazine, Vol. Ivi., 1823, p. 244. 
 
 Also printed in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 164-166. 
 
 The first stanza of the Ode as printed in Targum does not figure in 
 the version given in Romantic Ballads, whilst the third stanza of 
 the Romantic Ballads version is not to be found in Targum. 
 
 Chloe. [O we have a sister on earthly dominions/'] .... 47 
 
 Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, Vol. Ivi, 1823, p. 437. 
 
 National Song. From the Danish of Evald. [King Christian 
 
 stood beside the mast] 49 
 
 Previously printed (under the title Sea Song; from the Danish of 
 Evald) in The Monthly Magazine, December, 1823, p. 437. 
 
 Also printed in Romantic Ballaxls, 1S26, pp. 146-148 ; and again in 
 The Foreign Quarterly Revieiv, Vol. vi, June, 1 830, p. 70. 
 
54 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The four versions of this Song, as printed in The Monthly Magazine, 
 in Homantic Ballads, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, and in 
 Targinn, are utterly different, the opening line being the only 
 one which has approximately the same reading in all. 
 
 Sir Sinclair. {Sir Sinclair sail d from the Scottish ground ] . 51 
 Previously printed in The Foreign Qttarterly Rrciew, Vol. vi, 
 June, 1830, p. 73. 
 
 Hvidfeld. \_Our ?2ative land has ever teem d'\ 56 
 
 Birting. A Fragment. [It was late at evening tide'] ... 59 
 
 This " Fragment " consists of fifteen stanzas from the Ballad The 
 Giant of Berne and Orm Ungerswaytie, which was printed 
 complete, for Private Circulation, in 1913. \^^q fost. No. 40] 
 
 Ingeborg's Lamentation. 'Autumn winds howl] 62 
 
 The Delights of Finn Mac Coul. \_Finn Mac Coul ''??iongst 
 
 his joys did number] 65 
 
 Cardan's Lament. \The arts of Greece, Rome and of Eirin's 
 
 fair earth] 67 
 
 To Icolmcill. [On Icolmcill may blessings pour] 68 
 
 The Dying Bard. [O for to hear tlie hunter's tread] ... 70 
 
 In the original Manuscript of this Poem the title reads TA£ Wish 
 of the Bard ; the text also differs considerably firom that 
 which appears in Targjim. 
 
 The Prophecy of Taliesin. [JVithtn my mind] 73 
 
 The History of Taliesin. [The head Bard's place I hold] . 74 
 
 The original Manuscript of The History of Taliesin possesses many 
 points of interest. In the first place, in addition to sundry 
 variations of text, it enables us to fill up the words in the last 
 line of stanza 3, and the fourth line of stanza 7, which in the 
 pages of Targum are replaced by asterisks. The fuU lines 
 read : 
 
 Where died the Almighty s Son, 
 and 
 
 Have seen the Tritiity. 
 
 In the second place the Manuscript contains a stanza, following 
 upon the first, which does not occur in the printed text. This 
 stanza reads as follows : 
 
'It ill * 
 
 
 
 .|n,. 
 
 
 T/ie History of Taliesin. 
 

EDI TI ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 57 
 
 PAGE 
 
 / with my Lord and God 
 On the highest places trod, 
 
 IVhen Lucifer down fell 
 
 IVith his army into hell. 
 J know each little star 
 
 Which twinkles near and far ; 
 And / know the Milky Way 
 
 Where I tarried many a day. 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the third page of this Manuscript will be found 
 herewith, facing page 54. 
 
 Epigram. On a Miser who had built a Stately Mansion. 
 
 \0f every pleasure is thy mansion void'\ 77 
 
 The Invitation. [^Parry, of all my friends the best] .... 78 
 The Rising of Achilles, \Straightway Achilles arose, the 
 
 belov'd of Jove, round his shoulders] 82 
 
 The Meeting of Odysses and Achilles. \Tow''rds me cajne 
 
 the Shade of Peleidean Achilles] 85 
 
 Hymn To Thetis and Neoptolemus. \0f Thetis I sing with 
 
 her locks of gold- shine] 90 
 
 The Grave of Demos. \Thus old Demos spoke, as sinking 
 
 sought the sun the western wave] 91 
 
 The Sorceries of Canidia. \Father of Gods, who ruPst the 
 
 ^ky] 92 
 
 The French Cavalier. \^The French cavalier shall have 
 
 my praise] 97 
 
 Address To Sleep. [Sweet death of se?ise, oblivion of ill] . 98 
 The Moormen's March From Granada. [Reduan, I but 
 
 lately heard] loi 
 
 The Forsaken. \lJp I rose, O mother, early] 103 
 
 Stanzas. From the Portuguese. \^A fool is he tvho in the 
 
 lap] 104 
 
 My Eighteenth Year. \_Where is 7ny eighteenth year 1 far 
 
 back] 105 
 
 Song. From the Rommany. [The strength of the ox] . . 106 
 
58 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Another version of this Song, bearing the title " Our Heart is heavy, 
 Brother,'' is printed in Marsk Stig's Daughters and other Songs 
 and Ballads, 1913, pp. 17-18. 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this voUmie. 
 
 In 1892 Targufn was reprinted, together with The Talis?nan, 
 by Messrs. Jarrold & Sons, of Norwich, in an edition of 250 
 copies. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of Targum in the Library 
 of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C.57.i.6. 
 
 (5) 
 [The Talisman: 1835] 
 
 The / Talisman. / From the Russian / of / 
 Alexander Pushkin. / With other Pieces. / St. 
 Petersburg. / Printed by Schulz and Beneze, / 1835. 
 
 Collation: — Royal octavo, pp. 14; consisting of: Title- 
 page, as above (with a Russian quotation upon the 
 centre of the reverse) pp. 1-2 ; and Text of The 
 Talisman and other Poems pp. 3-14. There are no 
 head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in 
 Arabic numerals. Beyond that upon the title-page 
 there is no imprint. There are also no signatures, 
 the pamphlet being composed of a single sheet, 
 folded to form sixteen pages. The last leaf is a 
 blank. The book was issued without any half-title. 
 
 Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves measure 
 9f X 6\ inches. 
 
 One Hundred Copies only were printed. 
 
I I'lS i-iar-i -iTT jJaii.£:^ ' ^ — v.:^^ 
 
 FROM THE RUSSIAN 
 
 OF 
 
 With other Pieces. 
 
 9^-^* 
 
 St. Petersburg. 
 
 printed by schulz and bereze, 
 
 1835. 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 6i 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the Title-page of T/ie Talisman is 
 given herewith. It will be observed that the heavy letterpress 
 upon the reverse of the title shows through the paper, and is 
 reproduced in the photograph. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Talisman. \^\Vhe7'e fierce the surge with atvful benoiv\ . 3 
 The Mermaid. \Close by a lake, begirt tvith forest] .... 5 
 Ancient Russian Songs : 
 
 1. \_The windel-straw nor grass so shook and trembled'] 
 
 2. [O rustle not, ye verdant oaken branches !] . . . . 
 
 3. [O thou field of my delight so fair and verdant f] . 
 Ancient Ballad. \_From the wood a sound is glidi?ig] . . 
 The Renegade. [Noxa pay ye the heed that is fittifig] . 
 
 Note. — The whole of the poems printed in T/ie Talisman appeared 
 
 there for the first time. 
 
 In 1892 Messrs. Jarrold & Sons published page for page 
 reprints of Targum and The Talisman. They were issued 
 together in one volume, bound in light drab-coloured paper 
 boards, with white paper back-label, and were accompanied by 
 the following collective title-page : 
 
 Targmn : / or, / Metrical Translations fr07n Thirty Languages / 
 and Dialects. / And j The Talistnan, / frojft the Russian of 
 Alexander Pushkin. / JVith Other Pieces, j By j George Borrow, j 
 Author of^^ The Bible in Spain,'' cr^c. j London : j Jarrold &= Sons, 
 3, Paternoster Buildings. 
 
 In 191 2 a small 'remainder' of The Talisman came to light. 
 The ' find ' consisted of about Five Copies, which were sold in the 
 first instance for an equal number of Pence. The buyer appears 
 to have resold them at progressive prices, commencing at Four 
 Pounds and concluding at Ten Guineas. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Talisman in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is €.57.^33. 
 
62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 (6) 
 [The Gospel of St. Luke : 1837] 
 
 Embeo / e Majaro Lucas, / Brotoboro / randado 
 andre la chipe griega, acana / chibado andre o 
 Romano, 6 chipe es / Zincales de Sese. / El 
 Evangelio segun S. Lucas, / traducido al Romani, / 
 6 dialecto de los Gitanos de Espafia. / 1837. 
 
 Collation: — Foolscap octavo, pp. 177, consisting of : Title- 
 page, as above (with Borrow's Colophon upon the 
 reverse, followed by a quotation from the Epistle to 
 the Romans, Chap. XV. v. XXIV.) pp. i — 2 ; and 
 Text of the Gospel pp. 3 — 177. The reverse of 
 p. 177 is blank. There are no head-lines, the pages 
 being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. 
 There is no printer's imprint. The signatures are 
 A to L (11 sheets, each 8 leaves), plus L repeated 
 (two leaves, the second a blank). The book was 
 issued without any half-title, 
 
 I have never seen a copy of the First Edition of Borrow's 
 translation into the dialect of the Spanish Gypsies of the Gospel 
 of St. Luke in the original binding. No doubt the book (which 
 was printed in Madrid) was put up in paper wrappers, with 
 untrimmed edges, in accordance with the usual Continental 
 custom. 
 
 Most of the copies now extant are either in a modern binding, 
 or in contemporary brown calf, with marbled edges and end- 
 papers. The latter are doubtless the copies sent home by Borrow, 
 and bound in leather for that purpose. The leaves of these 
 measure 6x4 inches. 
 
"SZSTV^ii. :• 
 
 JDbaicc/to XuccUi, 
 
 JlHOTOBOno 
 
 ta«Da^o ixni^ie lit chipe attcga , aiAtxt 
 El EVANGELIO SEGUN S. LuCAS, 
 
 Iraducido al Romani, 
 d lii.iircro de loi drannt tic Etpaiifi. 
 
 t 
 
 837 
 
EDIT/ONES PR/NCIPES, ETC. 65 
 
 As will be seen from the following extracts, it is probable that 
 'the First Edition consisted of 250 copies, and that 50 of these 
 were forwarded to London : 
 
 " In response to Borrow's letter of February 27th, the Committee 
 ■resolved 'to authorise Mr. Borrow to print 250 copies of the Gospel 
 of St. Luke, without the Vocabulary, in the Rummanee dialect, and to 
 engage the services of a competent person to translate the Gospel of 
 St. Luke by way of trial in the dialect of the Spanish Basque.' " — 
 \_Leiters of George Borrozu to the British and Foreign Bible Society, 
 11911, pp. 205-206.] 
 
 "A small impression of the Gospel of St. Luke, in the Rommany, 
 or Gitano, or Gipsy language, has been printed at Madrid, under the 
 superintendence of this same gentleman, who himself made the 
 translation for the benefit of the interesting, singular, degraded race 
 of people whose name it bears, and who are very numerous in some 
 parts of Spain. He has likewise taken charge of the printing of the 
 Gospel of St. Luke, in the Cantabrian, or Spanish Basque language, a 
 translation of which had fallen into his hands." — {Thirty- Fourth 
 Annual Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1838, p. xliii.] 
 
 " All the Testaments were stopped at the custom house, they were 
 contained in two large chests. . . . The chests, therefore, with the 
 hundred Gospels in Gitano and Basque [probably 50 copies of each] 
 for the Library of the Bible Society are at present at San Lucar in 
 the custom house, from which I expect to receive to-morrow the 
 receipt which the authorities here demand." — \_Borroiu's letter to the 
 Rev. A. Brandram, Seville, May 2nd, 1839.] 
 
 A Second Edition of the Gospel was printed in London in 187 1, 
 The collation is Duodecimo, pp. 117. This was followed by a 
 Third Edition, London, 1872, the collation of which is also 
 Duodecimo, pp. 117. Both bear the same imprint : "London: / 
 Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Sta/nford Street, / and 
 Charing Cross." 
 
 For these London Editions the text was considerably revised. 
 
 The Gospel of St. Luke in the Basque dialect, referred to in 
 the above paragraphs, is a small octavo volume bearing the 
 following title-page : 
 
66 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 JEvangelioa / San Liicaseti Guissan / El Evangelio segim S. 
 Lucas. / Tradiicido al vascuence. j Madrid: j Imprenta de la 
 Compafiia Tipografica / 1838. 
 
 The translation was the work of a Basque physician named 
 Oteiza, and Borrow did little more than see it through the press. 
 The book has, therefore, no claim to rank as a Borrow priuceps. 
 
 The measure of success which attended his efforts to reproduce 
 the Gospel of St. Luke in these two dialects is best told in 
 Borrow's own words : 
 
 " I subsequently published the Gospel of St. Luke in the Rommany 
 and Biscayan languages. With respect to the first, I beg leave to 
 observe that no work printed in Spain ever caused so great and so 
 general a sensation, not so much amongst the Gypsies, for whom it 
 was intended, as amongst the Spaniards themseh-es, who, though they 
 look upon the Roma with some degree of contempt, nevertheless take 
 a strange interest in all that concerns them. . . . Respecting the 
 Gospel in Basque I have less to say. It was originally translated 
 into the dialect of Guipuscoa by Dr. Oteiza, and subsequently received 
 corrections and alterations from myself. It can scarcely be said to 
 have been pubhshed, it having been prohibited and copies of it seized 
 on the second day of its appearance. But it is in my power to state 
 that it is anxiously expected in the Basque provinces, where books in 
 the aboriginal tongue are both scarce and dear." — {Borrow's Survey 
 of his last tivo years in Spain, pri?t/ed ift his Letters to the Bible 
 Society, 191 1, pp. 360-361.] 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of Tlie Gospel of St. Luke 
 in the dialect of the Spanish Gypsies in the Library of the British 
 Museum. The Press-mark is C.5i..aa.i2. The Museum also 
 possesses a copy of the Gospel in the Basque dialect ; the Press- 
 mark is Csi.aa. 13. 
 
 (7) 
 
 [The Zincali : 1841] 
 
 The Zincali ; / Or, / An Account / of the / Gypsies 
 of Spain. / With / An Original Collection of their / 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 67 
 
 Songs and Poetry, / and / A Copious Dictionary of 
 their Language. / By / George Borrow, / Late Agent 
 of the British and Foreign Bible Society / in Spain. / 
 "■For that, ivhich is tmclean by nattire, thou canst 
 entertain no hope : no / ivashing ivill tiwn the Gypsy 
 luhiteT — Ferdousi. / In Two Volumes. / Vol. I. 
 \yol. 11^ I London: / John Murray, Albemarle 
 Street. / 1841. 
 
 Vot. 1. 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. xvi + 362 ; consisting 
 of: Half-title (with imprint '' G. Woodfatl and Son, 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London" upon the 
 centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above 
 (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Dedication To the 
 Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, G.C.B. 
 (with blank reverse) pp. v — vi; Preface pp. vii — xii; 
 Table of Contents pp. xiii — xvi ; and Text pp. 
 I — 362, including a separate Fly-title (with blank 
 reverse) to The Zincali, Part II. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each verso being headed The 
 Zincali, whilst each recto carries at its head a note 
 of the particular subject occupying it. The imprint 
 is repeated at the foot of p. 362. The signatures 
 are a (six leaves), b (two leaves), B to O (15 sheets, 
 each 12 leaves), plus R (two leaves). Sig. R 2 is a 
 blank. 
 
 Vol. II. 
 Collation: — Large duodecimo, pp. vi -f- 156 -j- vi -{- *I35 ', 
 consisting of: Half-title (with imprint " G^. Woodfatl 
 and Son, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London" upon 
 
 F 2 
 
68 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 the centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as 
 above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Table of 
 Contents pp. v — vi ; Fly-title to The Zincali, 
 Part III (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Text of 
 Part III (including separate Fly-titles, each with 
 blank reverse, to The Praise of Buddh, On the Lan- 
 guage of the Gitanos, and Robber Language^ pp. 
 3 — 156; Fly-title (with blank reverse) to TJie 
 Zincali. Vocabulary of their Language pp. i — ii; 
 Advertisement to the Vocabulary pp. iii — v ; p. vi 
 is blank; Text of the Vocabulary pp. *i — *ii3; 
 p. *II4 is blank; Fly-title (with blank reverse) to 
 Miscellanies in the Gitano Language pp. *i 15 — *i 16 ; 
 Advertisement to the Miscellanies p. *i 17; and Text 
 of the Miscellanies pp. *ii8 — *I35. The reverse of 
 p. *I35 is blank. There are head-lines throughout, 
 each verso being headed The Ziricali, whilst each 
 recto carries at its head a note of the particular 
 subject occupying it. The imprint is repeated at 
 the foot of p. *I35. The signatures are a (2 leaves), 
 b (one leaf), B to G (6 sheets, each 12 leaves), H (6 
 leaves), A (3 leaves), B to e (4 sheets, each 12 leaves), 
 F (9 leaves), and G (12 leaves). B 6, B 8, and B 12 
 are cancel-leaves. The last leaf of Sig. G is occu- 
 pied by a series of Advertisements of Works just 
 Published hy John Murra}\ 
 Issued (in April, 1841) in dark blue cloth boards, with 
 white paper back-label, lettered '' Borrow' s j Gypsies j of I 
 Spain. I Two Volumes. / Vol. I. [Vol. II.]." The leaves 
 measure 7I x 4f inches. The published price was i8i-. 
 
 Of the First Edition of The Zincali Seven Hundred and Fifty 
 Copies only were printed. A Second Edition, to which a new 
 
EDITIONES r RING I PES, ETC. 69 
 
 Preface was added, was published in March, 1843, and a Third 
 in September, 1843, each of which was restricted to the same 
 number of copies. The Fourth Edition appeared in 1846, the 
 Fifth in 1870, the Sixth in 1882, the Seventh in 1888, and the 
 Eighth in 1893. The book has since been included in various 
 popular editions, and translated into several foreign languages. 
 
 Examples of The Zincali may sometimes be met with bearing 
 dates other than those noted above. These are merely copies of 
 the editions specified, furnished with new title-pages. 
 
 Included in the second volume of The Zincali is a considerable 
 amount of verse, as follows : 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Rhymes of the Gitanos. \U)ito a refuge me they led] . . 13 
 
 The Deluge. Part I. \I with fear and terror quake] . . 65 
 
 The Deluge. Part II. \^]Vhen I last did bid fareivell] . 75 
 
 The Pestilence. [/'/« resolved nota to tell] 85 
 
 The whole of the above pieces are accompanied on the opposite 
 pages by the original texts from which Borrow translated them. 
 
 Poem, relating to the Worship of the great Foutsa 
 
 OR BuDDH. [Should I Foutsa'' s force and glory] ... 94 
 Previously printed in Targiim, 1835, p. 13. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Zincali in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 1429. g. 14. 
 
 (8) 
 [The Bible in Spain : 1843.] 
 
 The / Bible in Spain ; / Or, the / Journeys, Ad- 
 ventures, and Imprisonments / Of an Englishman, / 
 in / An Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures / in / 
 The Peninsula. / By George Borrow, / Author 
 of " The Gypsies of Spain." / In three volumes. / 
 
70 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 \q\. I. [\^ol. II, etc.] ' London: / John Murray, 
 
 Albemarle Street. / 1S43. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo pp. xxiv + 370 ; consisting 
 of: Half-title 'with innprint " G. Wood/all and Son, 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London " upon the 
 ■ centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above 
 (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Contents of Vol. i 
 pp. V — viii ; Preface pp. ix — xxiv ; and Text pp. i — 
 370. There are head-lines throughout, each verso 
 being headed The Bible in Spain together with 
 the number of the Chapter, whilst each recto carries 
 at its head a note of the particular subject occupying 
 it, with the Chapter number repeated. The imprint 
 is repeated at the foot of p. 370. The signatures 
 are A to O (sixteen sheets, each 12 leaves), plus R 
 (a half-sheet of 6 leaves. The last leaf of sig. R 
 carries a series of Advertisements of books published 
 by John IMurray. 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. viii + 39S ; consisting of 
 Half-title (with imprint " G. Woodfall and Son. 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London " upon the 
 centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above 
 (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Conte)its of Vol. ii. 
 pp. V — viii ; and Text pp. i — 39S. There are head- 
 lines throughout, as in the first volume. The imprint 
 is repeated at the foot of p. 398. The signatures are 
 A (four leaves), B to R (sixteen sheets, each 1 2 leaves), 
 plus S (8 leaves). The last leaf of Sig. R carries a 
 series of Advertisements of books published by John 
 Murray. 
 
EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 71 
 
 Vol. in. 
 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. viii + 391 ; consisting 
 of: Half-title (with imprint " G. Woodfall and Son, 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London" upon the 
 centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above 
 (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Contents of Vol Hi 
 pp. V — viii ; and Text pp. i — 391. There are head- 
 lines throughout, as in the two preceding volumes. 
 The reverse of p. 391 is occupied by Advertisements 
 of Romantic Ballads, Targuni, and The Zincati. The 
 imprint is repeated at the foot of p. 391. The 
 signatures are a (2 leaves), b (2 leaves), B to R (six- 
 teen sheets, each 12 leaves), plus S (4 leaves). 
 Issued (in December, 1842) in deep claret-coloured cloth 
 boards, with white paper back-label, lettered " The \ Bible \ 
 in I Spain \ Vol. I. [Vol. II, &c.]." The leaves measure 
 7f X 4f inches. The published price was 2']s. 
 
 Although the title page of the First Edition of The Bible in 
 Spain is dated 1843, there can be no doubt that the book was 
 ready early in the preceding December. I have in my own library 
 a copy, still in the original cloth boards, with the following inscrip- 
 tion in Borrow's handwriting upon the flyleaf: 
 
 Autographed presentation copies o. Borrow's books are remarkably few in 
 number, I only know of four, in addition to the above. One of these is pre- 
 served in the Borrow Museum, at Norwich. 
 
72 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Of the First Edition of The Bible in Spain One Thousand! 
 Copies were printed. The Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and 
 Sixth Editions were all published in 1843. By 1896 eighteen 
 authorised editions had made their appearance. Since that date 
 the book has been re-issued in numberless popular editions, and 
 has been translated into various foreign languages. 
 
 The following verses made their first appearance in The Bible 
 in Spain : 
 
 VOL. I., PAGE 
 
 Fragment of a Spanish Hymn. \Once of old upon a 
 
 mountain, shepherds overcoftie with sleep] 67 
 
 Lines from an Eastern Poet. [/'// weary myself each 
 
 night a?id each day] 149 
 
 A Gachapla. [I stole a plump and bonny fowl] 175, 
 
 VOL. II., PAGE 
 
 Fragment of a Patriotic Song. [Don Carlos is a hoary 
 
 churl] 141 
 
 Saint James. [Thou shield of that faith which in Spain we 
 
 revere] 176 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of Saint /a/iies 
 will be found facing the present page. 
 
 Lines. [May the Lord God preserve tis frotn evil birds three] 310 
 Lines. [A Iiandless man a letter did 7vrite] 312 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of T/ie Bible in Spain in 
 the Library of the British Museum. The press-mark is 1369. f.23. 
 
 (9) 
 
 [Review of Ford's " Hand-book for Travellers 
 IN Spain " : 1845] 
 
 Art. — Hand-book for Travellers in Spain. London :: 
 2 Vols. / post 8vo. 1845. 
 
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 It was formerly our cusloin to read the Don 'pervasively' once 
 ever\ three Mars ; we still keep up that custom in part, ami hoi)e 
 .to do so whiUt life remains. We say in part, because we now 
 conclude with the first part piing no farther. We have little 
 sjTnpathy with the pranks d i s f» kai< »4- upon Sancho and his mailer 
 by the Duke and Duchess, nJ.irh n r^iipj; n rons idprHblg-ym-^^n 
 in the a ec i ini t-beek ; and as for the affair of Sancho's government 
 at Barataria, it appears to us full of inconsistency and absurdity. 
 Barataria, we are told, was a place upon the Duke"s estate, con- 
 sisting of »um£ thousand inhabitants ; and of such a place it was 
 very possible for a nobleman t^> have made the pmir squire p;o- 
 vern.ir; but we no si'oner get to Barataria than we find ourseUci 
 net' in .1 h . -»i»' i cl .. but in a capital in Madrid. The gi)M-rnor .it 
 iii.'la ii;akcs bis rounds, attended by -an immense watch |' he 
 ^\ande^s from one street to .inoibi-r lor Iiours ; he encounters all 
 kinds of adventures, not k: . k K • :■■■■'.'■ ulvcntures, and all kinds 
 of characters, not mock 1 f rs ; there is talk of bull- 
 
 circuses, theatres, sramMi; : .-• - . i suchlike; .ind all this in 
 a -bamleLjiI-wae. thousand iiiliabilaiils. in which, by the «.-i\. 
 nothing but a cat is ever heard stirring after eight o'clock ; thi^ 
 we consider to be carrying the joke rather too far; and it is not 
 Sancho but the reader who is joked with. But the first p4rt is :t 
 widely different affair : all the scenes are admirable. Should we 
 live a thousand years, we should never forget the impression made 
 upon us by the Bii n' t a ll af4t-t>i 
 
 
 c prioC f-ew ivcying ti.c c i u ' pu 
 nd by the se(]uel thereto, his midnight ad 
 tlie Crown Mountain. We can only speak of those W^.'n ".V,-ii !*>_ 
 scenes as astonishing — they have never been equalled in their V^T-jAl '''i"^>~ 
 line. There is another wonderful book uii S ; »»u which descrilje; 
 vrCal we may7aTrTIie~ 6ol> l lif e of Spain, as the other describes tlie 
 rily I iff — we allude of course to Le Sage's novel, which as a 
 whole we prefer to Don Quixote, the characters introduced being 
 certainly more true to nature than those which appear in the 
 otlier great work. Shame to Spain that she has not long since 
 erected a statue to Le Sage, who has done so much to illusiraif 
 her; but miserable envy and jealousy have been at the bottom of 
 the feeling ever manifested in Spain towards that illustrious name. 
 There arc some few stains in the grand work of Le Sage. He 
 has imitated without acknowledgment three or four passages con- 
 tained in the life of Obregon, a curious work, of which we have 
 already spoken, gnd to which on some future occasion we niny 
 pcrliaps revert. 
 
 But the Hand-book? We take leave of it with the higheiV 
 respect and admiration for the author; and recomuund it not onlv 
 to trincllers in Spain, but to the public in general, as a work of 
 a very high order, written con amore by a man who has devoted 
 his whole lime, talents, and all t&e various treasures of an ex- 
 tensive learning to its execution. We repeat that we were totally 
 unprepared for such a literary treat as he has here placed before 
 us. It is our sincere wish that at his full convenience he wiil 
 
 favour us with something which m.ay ckim consanguinity with the 
 present work. It hardly becomes us to point out to an author 
 subjects on which to exercise his powers. We shall, however, 
 t.ake the liberty of hinting that a good history of Spain does not 
 exist, at least in English — and that not even Shelton produced, a 
 satisfactory trar»slation of the great gem of Spanish literature, 
 ' The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote.' 
 
EDIT/ONES PRLVCIPES, ETC. 77 
 
 Collation: — Folio, pp. 12. There is no Title-page proper, 
 the title, as above, being imposed upon the upper 
 portion of the first page, after the manner of a 
 'dropped head.' The head-line is Spanish Hand- 
 book throughout, upon both sides of the page. There 
 is no printer's imprint. There are also no signa- 
 tures ; but the pamphlet is composed of three sheets, 
 each two leaves, making twelve pages in all. 
 
 Issued stitched, and without wrappers. The leaves measure 
 13J X 8| inches. The pamphlet is undated. It was printed 
 in 1845. 
 
 This Reviexv is unquestionably the rarest of the First Editions 
 of Borrow's Works. No more than two copies would appear to 
 have been struck off, and both are fortunately extant to-day. One 
 of these was formerly in the possession of Dr. William I. Knapp, 
 and is now the property of the Hispanic Society, of New York. 
 The second example is in my own library. This was Borrow's 
 own copy, and is freely corrected in his characteristic handwriting. 
 A greatly reduced facsimile of the last page of the pamphlet is 
 given herewith. 
 
 In 1845 Richard Ford published his Hatid- Book for Travellers 
 in Spain and Readers at Home [2 Vols. 8vo.], a work, the com- 
 pilation of which is said to have occupied its author for more 
 than sixteen years. In conformity with the wish of Ford (who 
 had himself favourably reviewed The Bible in Spain) Borrow 
 undertook to produce a study of the Hand-Book for The Quarterly 
 Revieiv. The above Essay was the result. 
 
 But the Essay, brilliant though it is, was not a ' Review.' Not 
 until page 6 is the Hand-Book even mentioned, and but little 
 concerning it appears thereafter. Lockhart, then editing the 
 Quarterly, proposed to render it more suitable for the purpose 
 for which it had been intended by himself interpolating a series 
 
78 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 of extracts from Ford's volumes. But Borrow would tolerate no 
 interference with his work, and promptly withdrew the Essay, 
 which had meanwhile been set up in type. The following 
 letter, addressed by Lockhart to Ford, sufficiently explains the 
 position : 
 
 London, 
 
 Jime iT)th, 1845. 
 
 Dear Ford, 
 
 '■El Gitajio'' sent me a paper on the " Hand- Book," 
 which L read with delight. Lt seemed Just another capital chapter 
 of his " Bible in Spain," and I thought, as there was hardly a 
 word of ' review,'' a fid no extract giving the least notion of the 
 peculiar merits and style of the '■^ Hand- Book," that L could easily 
 (as is my constant custom) supply the humbler part myself, and 
 so present at once a fair review of the work, and a lively specimen 
 of our friend^s vein of eloquence in exordio. 
 
 But, behold I he will not allow any tampering . . . . / notv 
 write to condole with you ; for I am very sensible, after all, that you 
 run a great risk in having your book committed to hands far less 
 competent for treating it or any other book of Spanish inte?-est than 
 Borroni's would have been .... aJid I consider that, after all, in 
 the case of a ?iew author, it is the first duty of the ^^ Quarterly 
 Revieiv " to ifitroduce that author fully and fairly to the public. 
 
 Ever Yours Truly, 
 
 J. G. Lockhart. 
 
 " Our author pictures Gibraltar as a human entity thus address- 
 ing Spain : 
 
 Accursed land ! / hate thee, and far from being a defence, will 
 invariably prove a thorn in thy side. 
 
 And so on through many sentences of excited rhetoric. Borrow 
 forgot while he wrote that he had a book to review — a book, 
 moreover, issued by the publishing house which issued the 
 periodical in which his review was to appear." — [George Borrow 
 and his Circle, 19 13, p. 257J. 
 
A 
 
 SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER 
 
 TO 
 
 THE BIBLE IN SPAIN 
 
 Inspired by 
 FORD'S "HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPAIN. 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 8i 
 
 In 1913 Borrow's Review was reprinted in the following 
 Pamphlet : 
 
 A I Supplementary Chapter j to / The Bible in Spain / Inspired 
 by I Ford's " Handbook for Travellers in Spain." I By j George 
 Borrow j London: / Printed for Private Circulation j 191 3. — 
 Square demy 8vo, pp. 46, [^QQpost, No. 10.] 
 
 (10) 
 
 [A Supplementary Chapter to " The Bible in 
 Spain " : 1913] 
 
 A / Supplementary Chapter / to / The Bible in 
 Spain / Inspired by / Ford's " Handbook for 
 Travellers in Spain." / By / George Borrow / 
 London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 46; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Frontis- 
 piece (with blank recto) pp. 3 — 4 ; Title-page, as 
 above (with blank reverse) pp. 5 — 6 ; Prefatory Note 
 (signed ' T. f. IV.') pp. 7—10; and text of the 
 Chapter pp. 1 1 — 46. There are head-lines throughout, 
 each verso being headed A Supplementary Chapter, 
 and each recto To the Bible in Spain. Following 
 p. 46 is a leaf, witli blank recto, and with the follow- 
 ing imprint upon the reverse, " London : / Printed 
 for Thomas f. Wise, Hanipstead, N. W. / Edition 
 litnited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures are A to 
 C (3 sheets, each 8 leaves), inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 
82 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8f x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The Frontispiece consists of a greatly reduced facsimile of 
 the last page, bearing Borrow's corrections, of the original 
 edition of his Revieiv of Ford's ' Hand-Book' 
 
 This Supplementary Chapter to " The Bible in Spain " is a 
 reprint of the Review of Ford's Hand-book for Trave tiers in Spain 
 written by Borrow in 1845 for insertion in The Quarterly Revieiv, 
 but withdrawn by him in consequence of the proposal made by 
 the Editor, John Gibson Lockhart, that he should himself intro- 
 duce into Borrow's Essay a series of extracts from the Hand- 
 book. [See ante, No. 9.] 
 
 Included in the Prefatory Note is the following amusing squib, 
 written by Borrow in 1845, but never printed by him. I chanced 
 to light upon the Manuscript in a packet of his still unpublished 
 verse : 
 
 Would it not be more dignified 
 
 To run up debts on evefy side, 
 
 And then to pay your debts refuse. 
 
 Than write for rascally Reviews ? 
 
 A fid lectures give to great afid small. 
 
 In pot-house, theati-e, and town-hall. 
 
 Wearing yotir brains by night and day 
 
 To win the means to pay your tvay ? 
 
 I voto by him ivho reigns in \_hell]. 
 
 It would be more respectable ! 
 
 There is a copy of ^ Supplementary Chapter to ''The Bible in 
 Spain " in the Library of the British Museum. The press-mark 
 is C. 57. d. 19 (2). 
 
r 
 
 '% 
 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 85 
 
 [Lavengro : 1 851] 
 Lavengro ; / The Scholar — ^The Gypsy— The 
 Priest. / By George Borrow, / Author of " The 
 Bible in Spain," and " The Gypsies of Spain " / In 
 Three Volumes.— Vol. I. [ Vol. II., &c.'] / London : / 
 John Murray. Albemarle Street. / 1851. 
 
 JW. I. 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. xviii* + 360 ; consisting 
 of : Half-title (with imprint " London : / George 
 Woodfall and Son, / Angel Court, Skinner Street''' 
 upon the centre of the reverse). Pp. i-ii ; Title- 
 page, as above (with Advertisements of The Bible 
 in Spain and The Zincali upon the reverse) pp. iii-iv ; 
 Preface pp. v-xii ; and Text pp. 1-360. At the 
 foot of p. 360 the imprint is repeated thus, " G. 
 Woodfall and Son, Printers, Angel Court, Skinner 
 Street, London!' There are head-lines throughout, 
 each page being headed with the number of the 
 chapter, together with the title of the individual 
 subject occupying it. The signatures are A (nine 
 leaves, a single leaf being inserted between A 6 and 
 A 7), and B to O (fifteen sheets, each 12 leaves). 
 
 * These preliminary pages are misnumbered viii — xx, instead of vi — xviii. 
 A Portrait of Borrow, engraved by W. Holl from a painting by 
 H. W. Phillips, serves as Frontispiece. 
 
 Vol IL 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. xii-l-366 ; consisting of : 
 Half-title (with imprint "-London : / George Woodfall 
 afid Son, I Angel Court, Skinner Street'' upon the 
 
86 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above 
 (with Advertisements of The Bible in Spain and The 
 Zincali upon the reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Contents oi Vol. 
 
 11 pp. V — xi ; p. xii is blank ; and Text pp. i — 366. 
 At the foot of p. 366 the imprint is repeated thus, 
 "(9. Wood/all and Son, Printers, Angel Court, 
 Skinner Street, London." There are head-lines 
 throughout, as in the first volume. The signatures 
 are a (2 leaves), b (4 leaves), B to Q (fifteen sheets, 
 each 12 leaves), plus R (3 leaves). 
 
 Vol. III. 
 Collation: — Large duodecimo, pp. xii-t-426; consisting of: 
 Half-title {\v'\\h\m^x'vc\f London : / George Woodfall 
 and Son, / Angel Court, Skinner Street'' upon the 
 centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, as above 
 (with Advertisements of TJie Bible in Spain and The 
 Zincali upon the reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Contents of Vol. 
 Ill pp. V — xi ; p. xii is blank ; and Text pp. i — 426 
 At the foot of p. 426 the imprint is repeated thus, 
 " G. Woodfall and Son, Prifiters, Angel Court, Skinner 
 Street, London'' There are head-lines throughout, 
 as in the first volume. The signatures are a 
 (2 leaves), b (4 leaves), B to S (seventeen sheets, each 
 
 12 leaves), T (6 leaves), and U (3 leaves). 
 
 Issued in dark blue cloth boards, with white paper back- 
 labels, lettered " Borrow' s / Gypsies I of j Spain. / Tzvo 
 Volumes. / Vol. i. [ Vol. ii.]." The leaves measure 7f x 4I 
 inches. The edition consisted of 3,000 Copies. The 
 published price was t^os. 
 
 A Second Edition (miscalled T/n'rd Edition) was issued in 
 1872 J a Third (miscalled Fourth) in 1888; and a Fourth (mis- 
 called Fifth) in 1896. To the edition of 1872 was prefixed a new 
 
E Din ONES PKINCIPES, ETC. 87 
 
 Preface, in which Borrow rephed to his critics in a somewhat 
 angry and irritable manner. Copies of the First Edition of 
 Lavenp-o are to be met with, the three volumes bound in one, in 
 original publishers' cloth, bearing the name of the firm of 
 Chapman and Hall upon the back. These copies are ' remainders.' 
 They were made up in 1870. It is by no means unlikely that in 
 1872 some confusion prevailed as to the nature of this subsidiary 
 issue, and that it was mistaken for a Second Edition of the book. 
 If so the incorrect numbering of the edition of that date, the 
 actual Second Edition, may be readily accounted for. 
 
 An important edition of Lavengro is : 
 
 Lavengro I By George Borrow / A New Edition / Containing 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Page 86, the third paragraph should read : 
 Issued in dark blue cloth boards, with white paper back- 
 labels, lettered ''Lavengro ; / the / Scholar, / the Gypsy, / and I 
 the Priest. / By George Borrow / Vol. i. [ Vol. ii, &c?[ " 
 The leaves measure 7| x 4I inches. The edition consisted 
 of 3,000 Copies. The published price was 30^-. 
 
 Page 297, line 5 from foot. 
 Instead of Lockhart in the exercise of his editorial function 
 read the Editor in the exercise of his editorial function. 
 
 Page 297, line 2 from foot. 
 Instead of justified Lockhart's action 
 read justified the Editor's action. 
 
88 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Lavengro, An Autobiography. By George Borroiv, Esq., c^c. 
 
 The same title was employed in the advertisements of 1850. 
 
 Mr. Clement Shorter possesses the original draft of the first 
 portion of Lavejigro. In this draft the title-page appears in its 
 earliest form, and describes the book as Some Account of the Life, 
 Pursuits, and Advetitures of a N'orfoik Man. A facsimile of this 
 tentative title was given by Mr. Shorter in George Bo?-ro2v and his 
 Circle, 19 13, p. 280. 
 
 " Borrow took many years to write Lavengro. ' I am writing the 
 work,' he told Dawson Turner, ' in precisely the same manner as The 
 Bible in Spain, viz. on blank sheets of old account-books, backs of 
 letters,' &c., and he recalls Mahomet writing the Koran on mutton 
 bones as an analogy to his own ' slovenliness of manuscript.' I have 
 had plenty of opportunity of testing this slovenliness in the collection 
 of manuscripts of portions of Lavengro that have come into my 
 possession. These are written upon pieces of paper of all shapes and 
 sizes, although at least a third of the book in Borrow's very neat 
 handwriting is contained in a leather notebook. The title-page 
 demonstrates the earliest form of Borrow's conception. Not only did 
 he then contemplate an undisguised autobiography, but even described 
 himself as 'a Norfolk man.' Before the book was finished, however, 
 he repudiated the autobiographical note, and we find him fiercely 
 denouncing his critics for coming to such a conclusion. ' The writer,' 
 he declares, 'never said it was an autobiography; never authorised 
 any person to say it was one.' Which was doubtless true, in a 
 measure." — [George Borrow and his Circle, 1913, pp. 279-281]. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of Lavengro in the Library 
 of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 12622. f. 7. 
 
 (12.) 
 
 [The Romany Rye: 1857] 
 
 The / Romany Rye ; / A Sequel to " Lavengro." / 
 By George Borrow, / Author of/ "The Bible in 
 
EDIT/ONES P RING I PES, ETC. 89 
 
 Spain," " The Gypsies of Spain." etc. / ''Fear God, 
 and take your oivn party /In Two Volumes. — Vol. 
 I. {Vol. II.'] I London: John Murray, Albemarle 
 Street. / 1857. / [The Right of Translation is 
 reserved.] 
 
 Vol. I. 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. xii4-372 ; consisting of : 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, 
 as above (with imprint " London : Woodfall and 
 Kinder, Printers, j Angel Court, Skinner Street" 
 at the foot of the reverse) pp. iii — iv; Preface 
 (styled Advertise7nent) pp. v — vi ; Table of Contents 
 pp. vii — xi ; Extract from Pleasantries of the Cogia 
 Nasr Eddin Efendi p. xii ; and Text pp. i — 372. 
 The head-line is The Roniany Rye throughout, 
 upon both sides of the page ; each page also bears 
 at its head the number of the particular Chapter 
 occupying it. At the foot of p. 372 the imprint is 
 repeated thus, " Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London'' The 
 signatures are A (a half-sheet of 6 leaves), B to Q 
 (15 sheets, each 12 leaves), plus R (a half-sheet of 
 6 leaves). 
 
 Vol LL 
 Collation: — Large duodecimo, pp. viii-|-37S + ix ; consist- 
 ing of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; 
 Title-page, as above (with imprint " London : 
 Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, j Angel Court ^ 
 Skinner Street " at the foot of the reverse) pp. 
 iii — iv ; Table of Contents pp. v — vii ; p. viii is 
 
90 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 blank ; and Text pp. i — 375. The reverse of p. 375 
 is blank. The volume is completed by eight 
 unnumbered pages of Advertisements of Works by 
 the Author of " The Bible in Spain,'' ready for the 
 Press. There are head-lines throughout ; up to, 
 and includin;^, p. 244 the head-line is The Romany 
 Rye, together with the numbers of the Chapters, 
 pp. 245 — 375 are headed Appendix, accompanied 
 by the numbers of the Chapters. At the foot of the 
 last of the eight unnumbered jiages carrying the 
 Advertisements (Sig. R 12 verso) the imprint is 
 repeated thus, " Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London!' The sig- 
 natures are A (four leaves), plus B to R (16 sheets, 
 each 12 leaves). 
 
 Issued (on April lOth, 1857) in dark blue cloth boards, 
 with white paper back-labels, lettered " The j Romany 
 Rye. / By j George Borrow. I Vol. I. [ Vol. II.'\ " The leaves 
 measure 7^ X 5 inches. 
 
 Of the First Edition of The Romany Rye One Thousand 
 Copies were printed. The published price was 21J-. A Second 
 Edition was published in 1S58, a Third in 1872, a Fourth in 1888, 
 and a Fifth in 1896. The book is included in Everyman's 
 Library^ and in other series of popular reprints. 
 
 The series of Advertisements of Works by Borrow, announced 
 as " Ready for the Press," which occupy the last eight pages of 
 the second volume of The Romany Rye are of especial interest. 
 No less than twelve distinct works are included in these advertise- 
 ments. Of these twelve The Bible in Spain was already in the 
 hands of the public, Wild Wales duly appeared in 1862, and The 
 Sleeping Bard in i860. These three were all that Borrow lived to 
 see in print. Two others, The Turkish Jester and The Death of 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 91 
 
 Balder, were published posthumously in 1884 and 1889 respec- 
 tively ; but the remaining seven, Celtic Bards, Chiefs, and Kiniis, 
 Songs of Europe, Kcempe Viser, Penquite and Pentyre, Rtissian 
 Popular Tales, Northern Skalds, Kings, and Earls, and Bayr 
 Jairgey and Glion Doo : The Red Path and the Black Valley, 
 were never destined to see the light. However, practically the 
 whole of the verse prepared for them was included in the series of 
 Pamphlets which have been printed for private circulation during 
 the past twelve months. 
 
 As was the case with Lavengro, Borrow delayed the completion 
 of The Romajiy Rye to an extent that much disconcerted his 
 publisher, John Murray. The correspondence which passed 
 between author and publisher is given at some length by Dr. 
 Knapp, in whose pages the whole question is fully discussed. 
 
 Mr. Shorter presents the matter clearly and fairly in the para- 
 graphs he devotes to the subject : 
 
 " The most distinctly English book — at least in a certain absence of 
 cosmopolitanism — that Victorian literature produced was to a great 
 extent written on scraps of paper during a prolonged Continental tour 
 which included Constantinople and Budapest. In Lavengro we have 
 only half a book, the whole work, which included what came to be 
 published as The Ronia7iy Rye, having been intended to appear in four 
 volumes. The first volume was written in 1843, the second in 1845, 
 and the third volume in the years between 1845 and 1848. Then in 
 1S52 Borrow wrote out an advertisement of a fourth volume, which 
 runs as follows : 
 
 Shortly will be published in OJie volume. Price \os. The Rommany 
 Rye, Beifig the fourth volume of Lavengro. By George Borroiv, author 
 of The Bible itt Spai?t. 
 
 But this volume did not make an appearance ' shortly.' Its author 
 was far too much offended with the critics, too disheartened it may be, 
 to care to offer himself again for their gibes. The years rolled on, 
 and not until 1857 did The Romany Rye appear. The book was now 
 ill two volumes, and we see that the word Romany had dropped an 
 w. . . . 
 
 The incidents of Lavengro are supposed to have taken place 
 
92 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 between the 2\fh oi May 1825, and the \Zth oi July of that year. In 
 The Romany Rye the incidents apparently occur between the \^th of 
 July and the 2,rd of August 1825. In the opinion of Mr. John 
 Sampson, the whole of the episodes in the five volumes occurred in 
 seventy-two days." — \_Geo}\s;e Borrow and his Circle^ 191 3) PP- 
 34I-343-] 
 
 A useful edition of The Romany Rye is : 
 
 The Romany Rye / A Sequel to '■'■ Lavetigro'^ j By George 
 Borrozv j A Neiv Edition / Contaifting the unaltered text oj the 
 Original I Issue, with Notes, etc., by the Author oJ j " The Life of 
 George Borrow " / London j John Murray, Albemarle Street / 
 1900. — Crown 8vo. pp. xvi + 403. 
 
 The book was edited by Dr. William Knapp. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Romany Rye in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 12622. f. 8. 
 
 (13) 
 [The Sleeping Bard: i860] 
 
 The Sleeping Bard ; / Or / Visions of the World, 
 Death, and Hell, / By / Elis Wyn. / Translated 
 from the Cambrian British / By / George Borrow, / 
 Author of /" The Bible in Spain," "The Gypsies 
 of Spain," etc. / London : /John Murray, Albemarle 
 Street. / i860. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. x + 128 ; consisting of: 
 Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. i-ii ; 
 Preface pp. iii-vii ; p. viii is blank ; Fly-title to A 
 Vision of the Course of the World (with blank re- 
 verse) pp. ix-x ; and Text of the three Visions pp. 
 
ED in ONES PR/NCIPES, ETC. 93 
 
 I- 1 28. There are head-lines throughout, each double- 
 page being headed with the title of the particular 
 Vision occupying it. A Vision of Hell is preceded 
 by a separate F'ly-title (pp. 67-68) with blank re- 
 verse. At the foot of p. 128 is the following imprint, 
 ^' James M. Denew, Printer, 72, Hall Plain, Great 
 Yarmonthr The siieets carry no register. The book 
 was issued without any Half-title. In some copies 
 the Christian name of the printer is misprinted 
 J annus. 
 
 Issued (in June, i860) in magenta coloured cloth boards, 
 lettered in gold along the back, " The Sleeping Bard" and 
 ' London / John Murray" across the foot. The published 
 price was ^s. ; 250 copies were printed. Murray's con- 
 nection with the work was nominal. The book was 
 actually issued at Yarmouth by J. M. Denew, the printer 
 by whom it was produced. The cost was borne by the 
 author himself, to whom the majority of the copies 
 were ultimately delivered. 
 
 Some few copies of The Sleeping Bard would appear to have 
 been put up in yellowish-brown plain paper wrappers, with un- 
 trimmed edges. One such example is in the possession of Mr. 
 Paul Lempedey, of Cleveland, Ohio ; a second is in the library 
 of Mr. Clement Shorter. The leaves of both these copies 
 measure 8f x 5I inches. The leaves of ordinary copies in cloth 
 measure yi x 4I inches. The translation was made in 1830. 
 
 The text of The Sleeping Bard is divided into three sections. 
 Each of these sections closes with a poem of some length, 
 as follows : — 
 
 PAGE 
 
 1. The Perishing VVorhJ. [(9 7nan, upon this building gaze] 38 
 
 2. Death the Great. [^Leave land and house we must sotne 
 
 day] 63 
 
94 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 In the printed text the seventh stanza oi Death the Gj-eat reads 
 thus : 
 
 Tlie song and dance afford, I zueen, 
 Relief from spleen, and sorrows grave ; 
 How very strange there is no dance, 
 Nor tune of France, from Deatli can save I 
 
 About the year 187 1 Borrow re-wrote this stanza, as follows : 
 
 The song and dance can drive, they say. 
 The spleen away, and humour'' s grave : 
 Why hast thou not devised, O France ! 
 Some tune atid dance, from Death to save ? 
 
 As was invariably the case with Borrow, his revision was a vast 
 improvement upon the original version. 
 
 TAGR 
 
 3. The Heavy Heart. \^Heav\''s the heart with wandering 
 
 behnv\ 124 
 
 The Manuscript of The Sleeping Bard was formerly in the posses- 
 sion of Dr. Knapp. It is now the property of the Hispanic 
 Society, of New York. It extends to 74 pages 4to. 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Sleeping Bard 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 
 12355- c. 17- 
 
 (14) 
 [Wild Wales : 1862] 
 
 Wild Wales : / Its People, Language, and Scenery. / 
 By George Borrow, / Author of " The Bible in 
 Spain," etc. / " Their Lord they shall praise, / Their 
 language they shall keep, / Their lanel they shall 
 lose, I Except Wild Wales." /' Taliesin : Destiny of 
 the Britons. / In Three Volumes. — Vol. I. \_l^ol. II, 
 <^c.~\ I London : / John Murray, Albemarle Street. / 
 1862. / The right of Translation is reserved. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. xii + 410 ; consisting 
 of: Half-title (with advertisements of five of 
 
EDITIONES PR IXC /PES, ETC. 95 
 
 Borrow's JVorks upon the reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title- 
 page, as above (with imprint " London : j Printed by 
 Woodfall and Kindc)\ \ Angel Court, Skinner Street" 
 upon the centre of the reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Notice 
 regarding the previous appearance of a portion of 
 the work in The Quarterly Review (with blank 
 reverse) pp. v — vi ; Contents of Vol.1 pp. vii— xi ; 
 p. xii is blank; and Text pp. i — 410. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each verso being headed 
 ]]''ild Wales, whilst each recto is headed with the 
 title of the particular subject occupying it. At the 
 foot of p. 410 the imprint is repeated thus : 
 " Wood/all and Kinder, Printers, A)igel Court, 
 Skinner Street. London'' The signatures are A (a 
 half-sheet of 6 leaves), B to S (17 sheets, each 12 
 leaves), plus T (2 leaves) The second leaf of Sig. 
 T is a blank. 
 
 Vol. II. 
 
 Collation: — Large duodecimo, pp. viii -\- 413; consisting 
 of: Title-page, as above (with imprint '^London: I 
 Printed by Woodfall and Kinder, / Angel Courts 
 Skinner Street'' upon the centre of the reverse) 
 pp. i — ii ; Contents of ]^ol. LI pp. v — vii ; p. viii is 
 blank ; and Text pp. i — 413. The reverse of 
 p. 413 is blank. There are head-lines throughout, 
 as in the first volume At the foot of p. 413 the 
 imprint is repeated thus, " Woodfall and Kinder, 
 Printers, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London." 
 The signatures are A (4 leaves), B to S (17 sheets, 
 each 12 leaves), plus T (4 leaves). The last leaf of 
 Sig. T is a blank. The volume was issued without 
 any Half-title. 
 
96 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Vol. III. 
 Collation : — Large duodecimo, pp. viii + 474 ; consisting of : 
 Title-page, as above (with imprint " London : / 
 Printed by Wood/all and Kinder, / A7igel Court, 
 Skinner Street " upon the centre of the reverse) 
 pp. i — ii ; Contents of Vol. Ill p'p. iii — viii ; and Text 
 pp. I — 474. There are head-lines throughout, as in 
 the first volume. At the foot of p. 474 the imprint 
 is repeated thus, " Wood/all and Kinder, Printers, 
 Angel Court, Skinner Street, London'.' The sig- 
 natures are A (8 leaves), B to U (18 sheets, each 12 
 leaves), plus X (10 leaves). The last leaf of Sig. H 
 is a blank. The volume was issued without any 
 Half-title. 
 Issued (in December, 1862) in dark green cloth boards, with 
 white paper back-label, lettered " Wild Wales, j Bj j 
 George Borrow, j Vol. I [Vol. ii, &c.]." The leaves measure 
 7I X 4| inches. The published price was 30J. ; 1,000 
 copies were printed. 
 
 A Second Edition of Wild Wales was issued in 1865, a Third 
 Edition in 1888, and a Fourth Edition in 1896. The book has 
 since been included in divers series of non-copyright works. 
 
 The following Poems made their first appearance in the pages 
 of Wild Wales : 
 
 Vol. I 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Chester Ale. \^Chester ale, Chester ale I 1 could ne' er get it 
 
 down\ 18 
 
 Another, widely different, version of these lines exist in manuscript. 
 It reads as follows : 
 
 On the Ale of Chester. 
 Of Chester the ale has but sony renown, 
 
 'Tis made of ground-ivy, of dust, and of bran ; 
 'Tis as thick as a river belough a Hugh town, 
 
 ' Tis not lap for a dog, far less drink for a man. 
 

 
 ^f iW Vihrtli \1^^^ 
 
 
 '|H*>Oi 
 
 (\l 
 
 1 ^wv^^ WA 4 vw.JV v.Mli ^Jvl Ial ^h\ VWl . 
 
 
 U^^ Wjhvu. ilyAfej^ , *^ h1^ 
 
 |lu rwt v/i Kit mnA Vt( kA^ H ^A 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPE S, ETC. 99 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Saxons and Britons. [A serpent which coils'] 48 
 
 Pre%'iously printed in The Quarterly Review, January 1S61, p. 42. 
 
 Translation of a Welsh Englyn upon Dinas Bran. 
 
 {Gone, gone are thy gates, Dinas Bran on the height !'] . 61 
 Lines found on the tomb of Madoc. [Here after sail- 
 ing far I Madoc lie] 105 
 
 The Lassies of County Merion. {Full fair the gleisiad 
 
 in the flood] 153 
 
 This was one stanza only, the fifth, of the complete poem The 
 Cookod's Song in Merion, which Borrow translated some years 
 later, and which was first printed in Ermeline, 191 3, pp. 21-23. 
 The text of the two versions of this stanza differ considerably. 
 
 Stanza on the stone of Jane Willlams. {Though thou 
 
 art gone to divelling cold] 161 
 
 The Mist. \0 ho I thou villain mist, O ho I] 173 
 
 Although Borrow translated the whole poem, he omitted 24 lines (the 
 14 opening and 10 closing lines) when printing it in Wild Wales. 
 Here are the missing lines, which I give from the original 
 Manuscript : 
 
 A tryste with Morfydd true I made, 
 ^Twas not the first, in p'eenwood glade, 
 In hope to make her fee with me ; 
 But useless all, as you will see. 
 I went betimes, lest she should grieve. 
 Then came a mist at close of eve ; 
 Wide o'er the path by which I passed. 
 Its inantle ditn and inurk it cast. 
 That mist ascending 7net the sky, 
 Forcing the daylight from my eye. 
 I scarce had strayed a furlong's space 
 When of all things I lost the trace. 
 Where was the grove and waving grain ? 
 Where was the mountain hill and main ? 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Before me all affright and fear. 
 Above me darkness dense and drear. 
 My way at length I weary found, 
 Into a swaggy willow ground, 
 Where staring in each nook there stood 
 Of wry-mouthed elves a wrathful brood. 
 
loo BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Full oft I sank in that false soil. 
 My legs were lamed with length of toil. 
 However hard the case may be 
 No meetings more in misi for m e. 
 Two of the above lines, somewhat differently worded, were given in 
 Wild Wales, Vol. i, p. 184. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Lines Descriptive of the eagerness of a Soul to 
 
 REACH Paradise. \Now to my rest I hurry away] . . 251 
 Filicaia's Sonnet on Italy. [O Italy! on who??i dark 
 
 Destiny] 290 
 
 Translation of an englyn foretelling travelling 
 
 BY steam. \I got up in Mona as soon as 'twas light] . 341 
 Translation of a Welsh stanza about Snowdon. 
 
 [Easy to say ^ Behold Eryri'] 360 
 
 Stanzas on the snow of Snowdon. [Cold is the snoiv 
 
 on Snowdon's broia] 365 
 
 Vol. II 
 Lines from Black Robin's Ode in praise of Anglesey. 
 
 [Twelve sober 7nen the muses woo] 33 
 
 Lines on a Spring. [The wild wine of Nature] .... 112 
 Things written in a garden. [/// a garden the first of 
 
 our race was deceived] 158 
 
 El Punto de la Vana. [Never trust the sample when you 
 
 go your cloth to buy] 215 
 
 Llangollen's Ale. [Llangollen's brown ale is with malt 
 
 and hop rife] 275 
 
 Poverty and Riches. An Interlude. [O Riches, thy 
 
 figure is charming atid bright] 328 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of this 
 Interlude is given herewith, facing page 99. 
 An Ode to Sychark. By Iolo Goch. [Twice have I 
 
 pledged jny ivord to thee] 392 
 
 Vol. Ill 
 Translation of a Welsh englyn on the Rhyadr. 
 
 [Foa?ni?tg and frothing frofn mountainous height] ... 12 
 
 1 
 

 
 Mt'j tut U ^wVU l« ^UH^ kvK 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPE S, ETC. 103 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ode to Owen Glexdowek. [Here's the life Fve sigh'dfor 
 
 iong\ 98 
 
 Ode to a Yew Tree, yrhou noble tree ; wJio shelf rest 
 
 kind] 203 
 
 Lines. \_From high Ply7ilinwion's shaggy side] 219 
 
 Ode to a Yew Tree. [O tree of yew, which here I spy] . 247 
 
 This is another, and extended, version of the Ode printed on p. 203 
 of Wild Wales. Yet another version, differing from both, is 
 printed in Alf the Freebooter and Other Ballads, 19 13, p. 27. 
 
 Lines from Ode to the Ploughman, by Iolo Goch. 
 
 \The mighty Hu who lives for ever] 292 
 
 Previously printed, with some verbal differences, in The Quarterly 
 Review, fanuary 186 1, p. 40. 
 
 Lines on a Tomb-stone. \Thou earth from earth reflect 
 
 with anxious mind] 301 
 
 Ode to Griffith ap Nicholas. [Griffith ap Nicholas, 
 
 who like thee] ....• 327 
 
 The first six lines of this Ode had previously appeared in The 
 Quarterly Review, famiary 1S61, p. 50. 
 
 God's Better than All. [God's better than heaven or 
 
 aught therein] 335 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of Gods 
 Better thaji All will be found facing the present page. 
 
 Ab Gwilym's Ode to the Sun and Glamorgan. [Each 
 
 morn, benign of countenance] 377 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of Wild Wales in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 10369. e. 12. 
 
 (15) 
 
 [Romano Lavo-Lil : 1874] 
 Romano Lavo-Lil : / Word- Book of the Romany ; / 
 or, / English Gypsy Language. / With many pieces 
 
I04 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 in Gypsy, illustrative of the way of / Speaking and 
 Thinking of the English Gypsies ; / with Specimens 
 of their Poetry, and an account of certain Gypsyries 
 / or Places Inhabited by them, and of various things 
 / relating to Gypsy Life in England. / By George 
 Borrow, / Author of " Lavengro," " The Romany 
 Rye," " The Gypsies of Spain," / " The Bible in 
 Spain," etc. / '' Can you rokra Romany ? j Ca7i you 
 play the bosh ? / Can you jal adrey the staripen ? / 
 Can you chin the cost?'' / ''Can you speak the 
 Roman tongtie ? / Can you play the fiddle ? / Can 
 you eat the prison- loaf ? / Can you cut and whittle ? / 
 London : / John Murray, Albemarle Street. / 1874. 
 
 Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. viii + 331 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — ii ; Title-page, 
 as above (with imprint " London : / Printed by 
 William Clozves and Sons, j Stamford Street and 
 Charing Cross " upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 
 iii — iv ; Prefatory Note regarding the Vocabidary 
 p. V ; Advertisements of five Works of George 
 Borrow p. vi ; Table of Cotitents pp. vii — viii ; and 
 Text pp. I — 331, including Fly- titles (each with 
 blank reverse) to each section of the book. The 
 reverse of p. 331 is blank. At the foot of p. 331 
 the imprint is repeated thus, " London : Printed by 
 Wm. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street j and 
 Charing Cross!' There are head-lines throughout, 
 each page being headed with the title of the 
 particular subject occupying it. The signatures. 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 105 
 
 are A (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), B to X (20 sheets, 
 each 8 leaves), Y (a half-sheet of 4 leaves), and Z 
 (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves). 
 Issued in dark blue cloth boards, with white paper back- 
 label, lettered " Romano Lavo-Lil ; / Word-Book j of \ The 
 Romany. I By j George Borrow." The leaves measure 
 7f X4I inches. The published price was io.y. 6d. 
 
 One Thousand Copies were printed. 
 
 The book was set up in type towards the end of 1873, and 
 published early in 1874. Proof-sheets still exist bearing the 
 earlier date upon the title-page. 
 
 A considerable amount of Verse by Borrow made its first 
 appearance in the pages of Romano Lavo-Lil, as detailed in the 
 foUowinsf list : 
 
 Cotitents 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Little Sayings : 
 
 1. \ Whatever ignorance men may shoui\ 109 
 
 2. \What miist I do, mother, to make you well f\ . . iii 
 
 3. [/ would rather hear hijn speak than hear Lally 
 
 sing] T15 
 
 English Gypsy Songs : 
 
 1. The Gypsy Meeting. [ IVho's your mother, who's 
 
 your father 1] i75 
 
 2. Making a Fortune (i). \_Come along, my little 
 
 gypsy girl] i77 
 
 3. Making a Fortune (2). [Come along, 7ny little 
 
 gypsy girl] i79 
 
 The Two Gypsies. \Two gypsy lads were transported] . 181 
 My Roman Lass. [As L to the town was going one day] . 183 
 
 This is the first stanza only of T/ie English Gypsy. The complete 
 Song will be found in Marsk Stig's Daughters and Other 
 
io6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Songs and Ballads, 1913, pp. 14-15. Here is the concluding 
 stanza, omitted in Romano Lavo-Lil : 
 
 As I to the town was going one day, 
 
 I met a yotmg Roman upon the way. 
 
 Said he, ' ' Young maid will you share my lot ? " 
 
 Said I, " Another wife you^ve got. " 
 
 " No, no ! " the hajtdsome young Romati cried, 
 
 ' ' No wife have I in the world so wide ; 
 
 And you 7ny wedded wife shall be, 
 
 If you will share my lot with me." 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Yes, my Girl. [Jf to vie you prove untrue\ 185 
 
 The Youthful Earl. \^Said the youthful earl to the Gypsv 
 
 giri\ 185 
 
 Love Song. \rd choose as pillows for 77ty head\ 187 
 
 Woe ls Me. [/';// sailing across the 7vater\ 189 
 
 The Squire and Lady. \The squire he roams the good 
 
 greenwood'\ igi 
 
 Gypsy Lullaby. \_Sleef thee, little taivny boy f] 193 
 
 Our Blessed Queen. \_Coaches fine in Londoft] .... 195 
 Run for it. [Uf, up, brothers /'] 195 
 
 This is the first stanza only of the Gypsy Song, printed complete in 
 Marsk Stig's Daughters and other Songs and Ballads, 1913, 
 p. 16. 
 
 The Romany Songstress. \^Her temples they are aching] . 199 
 The Friar. [A Friar Was preaching once with zeal and 
 
 with fire] 201 
 
 The Manuscript of these amusing verses, which were translated by 
 Borrow from the dialect of the Spanish Gypsies, affords some 
 curious variants from the published text. Here are the lines 
 as they stand in the MS. : 
 
 A Friar 
 
 Was preaching once with zeal and 'cvith fire ; 
 
 And a butcher of the plain 
 
 Had lost a bonny swine ; 
 
 And the friar did opine 
 
 That the Gypsies it had td'en. 
 
 So, breaking ofF, he shouted, " Gypsy ho I 
 
 Hie home, and from the pot 
 
H Wi W^ \^\ W^ ^ ^^ 1^ ; ^ 
 
 ^\ ^m^ ^ l^-v^v k^ H v4.v4'. l;^ 
 
 I.«c«i«» .nfcjjw *it Jii.. 
 
EDIT/ONES PR INC/PES, ETC. 109 
 
 Take the butcher'' s porker out, 
 The porker good and fat. 
 And in its place throw 
 A clout, a dingy clout 
 Of thy brat, of thy brat ; 
 A clout, a dingy clout, 
 of thy brat.'''' 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Malbrouk. From the Spanish Gypsy Version. \_Mal- 
 
 brouk is gone to the 7uars\ 205 
 
 Sorrowful Years. {The tvit and the skill^^ 211 
 
 Fortune-Telling. \_Late rather one morning\ 240 
 
 The Fortune-Teller's Song. [Britannia is my name] . 243 
 
 Gypsy Stanza. \_Can you speak the Jionia?i tongue ?'\ ... 254 
 
 Charlotte Cooper. [Old Charlotte I am called^ . . . . 259 
 
 Epigram. [A beautiful face and a black wicked 7?iind^ . . 262 
 
 Lines. [Mickie, Jfuiaie and Larry bold] 272 
 
 Lines. [What care ^ve, though we be so small f] 280 
 
 Ryley Bosvil. [The Gorgios seek to hang vie\ 296 
 
 Ryley and the Gypsy. [Methinks I see a brother ] . . 298 
 To Yocky Shuri. [Beneath the bright sun, there is none, 
 
 there is fione] 301 
 
 Lines. [Roman lads Before the door] 325 
 
 Upon page 122 of Romano Lavo-Lil, is printed a version of 
 The Lord's Prayer cast into Romany by Borrow. The original 
 Manuscript of this translation has survived, and its text presents 
 some curious variations from the published version. A reduced 
 facsimile of this Manuscript serves as Frontispiece to the present 
 Bibliography. 
 
 Accompanying the Manuscript of The Lord's Prayer in 
 Romany, is the Manuscript of a translation made by Borrow into 
 the dialect of the English Gypsies. This translation has never, 
 so far as I am aware, appeared in print. It is an interesting 
 document, and well worthy of preservation. A reduced facsimile 
 of it will be found facing the present page. 
 
no BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 A Second Edition of Roma7w Lavo-Lil was issued by the 
 same publisher, John Murray, in 1888, and a Third in 1905. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of Romano Lavo-Lil in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 2278. c. 15. 
 
 (16) 
 
 [The Turkish Jester: 1884] 
 
 The Turkish Jester ; / Or, / The Pleasantries / of / 
 Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi. / Translated from the 
 Turkish / By / George Borrow. / Ipswich : / 
 W. Webber, Dial Lane. / 1884. 
 
 Collation : — Crown octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. ii-l-52 ; 
 consisting of: Title-page, as above (with Certificate 
 of Issue upon the centre of the reverse) pp. i — ii ; 
 and Text pp. i — 52. There are no head-lines, the 
 pages being numbered centrally. The book is 
 made up in a somewhat unusual manner, each half- 
 sheet having a separately printed quarter-sheet of 
 two leaves imposed within it. The register is there- 
 fore B to E (four sections, each 6 leaves), plus F 
 (2 leaves), the whole preceded by two leaves, one of 
 which is blank, whilst the other carries the Title- 
 page. There is no printer's imprint. The book was 
 issued without any Half-title. The title is enclosed 
 within a single rectangular ruled frame. 
 
 Issued in cream-coloured paper wrappers, with the title- 
 page reproduced upon the front, but reset in types of 
 different character, and without the ruled frame, and with 
 the imprint reading High Street in place of Dial Lane. 
 
ED IT I ONES PR/NCI PES, ETC. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Inside the front cover the Certificate of Issue is repeated 
 The leaves measure 7| X 5 inches. The edition consisted 
 of One Hundred and Fifty Copies. The puWishcd price 
 was ys. 6d. 
 
 The Manuscript of The Turkish Jester was formerly owned by Dr. Knapp 
 
 71 pages 4to. The translation was probably made about 1854, at the time 
 when Borrow was at work upon his Songs of Europe. In 1857, he book wat 
 ^.'l«'";r^ Advertisements appended to the second volume of ^1- 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Turkish Jester 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 
 758- b. 16. 
 
 (17) 
 [The Death of Balder: 1889] 
 
 The / Death of Balder / From the Danish / of / 
 Johannes Ewald / {,yy^^) j Translated by / George 
 Borrow / Author of " Bible in Spain," " Lavengro," 
 ''Wild Wales," etc. / London / Jarrold & Sons, 
 3 Paternoster Buildings, E.G. / 1889 /All Rights 
 Reserved. 
 
 Collation :— Crown octavo, pp. viii + ;7 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with Certificate of Issue upon the centre 
 of the reverse) pp. i—ii ; Title-page, as above (with 
 blank reverse) pp. iii_iv ; Preface and List of The 
 Persons (each with blank reverse) pp. v— viii ; and 
 Text pp. 1—77. The reverse of p. yy is blank. ' The 
 head-line is Death of Balder throughout, upon both 
 sides of the page. At the foot of p. yy is the follow- 
 
1 1 2 BIBLIOGRAPH V OF BORRO W. 
 
 ing imprint, " Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. / 
 London and Edinhirghr The signatures are A 
 (4 leaves), and B to F (5 sheets, each 8 leaves). 
 Sig. F 8 is a blank. 
 
 Issued in dark brown ' diced ' cloth boards, with white 
 paper back-label. The leaves measure 7| X 5 inches. 
 Two Hundred and Fifty Copies were printed. The 
 published price was 'js. 6d. 
 
 The Death of Balder was written in 1S29, the year during 
 which Borrow produced so many of his ballad translations, the 
 year in which he made his fruitless effort to obtain subscribers 
 for his Songs of Scandi7iavia. On December 6th of that year he 
 wrote to Dr. [afterwards Sir] John Bowring : 
 
 " I wish to shew you my translation of The Death of Balder, Ewald's 
 most celebrated production, which, if you approve of you will perhaps 
 render me some assistance in bringing forth, for I don't know many 
 publishers. I think this will be a proper time to introduce it to the 
 British public, as your account of Danish literature will doubtless 
 cause a sensation.'' 
 
 Evidently no publisher was forthcoming, for the work remained 
 in manuscript until 1889, when, eight years after Borrow's death, 
 Messrs. Jarrold & Sons gave it to the world. In 1857 Borrow 
 included the Tragedy among the series of Works advertised as 
 "ready for the Press" at the end of the second volume of The 
 Romany Rye. It was there described as '■^ A Heroic Play.^' 
 
 Although published only in 1889, The Death of Balder was 
 actually set up in type three years earlier. It had been intended 
 that the book should have been issued in London by Messrs. 
 Reeves & Turner, and proof-sheets exist carrying upon the title- 
 page the name of that firm as publishers, and bearing the date 
 1886. It would appear that Mr. W. Webber, a bookseller of 
 Ipswich, who then owned the Manuscript, had at first contemplated 
 issuing the book through Messrs. Reeves & Turner. But at this 
 
EDITIOXES PRINCIPES, ETC. 113 
 
 juncture he entered into the employment of Messrs. Jarrold & Sons, 
 and consequently the books was finally brought out by that firm. 
 The types were not reset, but were kept standing during the 
 interval. 
 
 Another version of the song of The Three Valkyrier, which 
 appears in The Death of Balder, pp. 53-54, was printed in Marsk 
 Sti^s Daughters a fid Other Songs and Ballads, 1913, pp. 19-20. 
 The text of the two versions differs entirely, in addition to which 
 the 1 9 13 version forms one complete single song, whilst in that of 
 1S89 the lines are divided up between the several characters. 
 
 The Manuscript of The Death of Balder, referred to above, passed into 
 the hands of Dr. Knapp, and is now in the possession of the Hispanic Society, 
 of New York. It consists of 97 pages 4to. A transcript in the handwriting of 
 Mrs. Borrow is also the property of the Society. 
 
 There is a copy of the First Edition of The Death of Balder 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 
 II755- f 9- 
 
 (18) 
 
 [Letters to the Bible Society : 191 1] 
 
 Letters of / George Borrow / To the British and 
 Foreign / Bible Society / PabHshed by Direction of 
 the Committee / Edited by / T. H. Darlow / 
 Hodder and Stoughton / London New York 
 Toronto / 191 1. 
 
 Collation: — Octavo, pp. xviii + 471 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i— ii ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. iii — iv ; Dedication 
 To Williamson Lamplough (with blank reverse) pp. 
 V — vi ; Preface vii-xi ; Note regarding "the officials 
 of the Bible Society with whom Borrow came into close 
 
 I 
 
114 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 relationship " pp. xi — xii ; List of Borroiv' s Letters, etc., 
 printed in this Volume pp. xiii — xvii ; chronological 
 Outline of Borrow' s career p. xviii ; and Text of the 
 Letters, &c., pp. i — 471. There are head- lines 
 throughout, each verso being headed George Sorrow's 
 Letters, and each recto To the Bible Society. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 471 is the following imprint 
 " Printed by T. and A. Cotistable, Printers to His 
 Majesty / at the Edinburgh University Press." The 
 signatures are a (one sheet of 8 leaves), b (a quarter- 
 sheet of 2 leaves), A to 2 F (29 sheets, each 8 leaves) 
 plus 2 G (a half-sheet of 4 leaves). Sig. a i \s a. 
 blank. A facsimile of one of the Letters included 
 in the volume is inserted as Frontispiece. 
 
 Issued in dark crimson buckram, with paper sides, lettered 
 in gold across the back, " Letters of l George / Borrow / To 
 the I Bible Society / Edited by / T. LL. Darloiv / Hodder & 
 I Stoughton." The leaves measure 8f x 5| inches. The 
 published price was ys. 6d. 
 
 " When Borrow set about preparing The Bible in Spain, he 
 obtained from the Committee of the Bible Society the loan of the 
 letters which are here published, and introduced considerable 
 portions of them into that most picturesque and popular of his 
 works. Perhaps one-third of the contents of the present volume 
 was utilised in this way, being more or less altered and edited by 
 Borrow for the purpose." — [^Preface, pp. ix-x]. 
 
 The holographs of the complete series of Letters included in 
 this volume are preserved in the archives of the British and 
 Foreign Bible Society. 
 
 There is a copy of Letters of George Borrow to the British and 
 Foreign Bible Society in the Library of the British Museum. The 
 Press-mark is 010902. e'. 10. 
 
EDIT/ONES PR INC/PES, ETC. 115 
 
 (19) 
 
 [Letters to Mary Borrow: 1913] 
 
 Letters / To his Wife / Mary Borrow / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. i'^ \ consisting of: Half- 
 title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as 
 above (with blank reverse), pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Letters pp. 5 — 38. The head-line is Letters to 
 His Wife throughout, upon both sides of the page. 
 Following p. 38 is a leaf, with blank reverse, and 
 with the following imprint upon its recto, " London : f 
 Printed for Thomas f. Wise, Hanipstead, N. W. f 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies^ Tlie signatures 
 are A (a half sheet of 4 leaves), plus B and C 
 (2 sheets, each 8 leaves), inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 
 The leaves measure 71 X 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Holograph Letters by Borrow are extremely uncommon, the 
 number known to be extant being far less than one might have 
 supposed would be the case, considering the good age to which 
 Borrow attained. His correspondents were few, and, save to 
 the officials of the Bible Society, he was not a diligent letter- 
 writer. The holographs of this series of letters addressed to his 
 wife are in my own collection of Borroviana. 
 
 The majority of the letters included in this volume were re- 
 
 I 2 
 
ii6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 printed in George Borrow and his Circle. By Clement King 
 Shorter., 8vo, 19 13. 
 
 There is a copy of Letters to his Wife., Mary Borrow, in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44- 
 d. 32. 
 
 (20) 
 
 [Marsk Stig : 19 13] 
 
 Marsk Stig / A Ballad / By / George Borrow / 
 London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 40; con^-isting of : Half-title 
 (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as above 
 (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of the Ballad 
 pp. 5 — 40. The head-line is Marsk Stig through- 
 out, upon both sides of the page. At the foot of 
 p. 40 is the following imprint, " London : j Printed for 
 Thomas J. Wise, Havipstead, N. W. / Edition limited 
 to Thirty Copies!' The signatures are A (a half- 
 sheet of 4 leaves), plus B and C (2 sheets, each 
 8 leaves), inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure /i x 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Marsk Stig consists of four separate Ballads, or Songs as 
 Borrow styled them, the whole forming one complete and con- 
 nected story. The plot is an old Danish legend of the same 
 character as the history of David and Bathsheba, Marsk Stig 
 himself being the counterpart of Uriah the Hittite. 
 
MARSK STIG 
 
 A BALLAD 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 

 
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EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 121 
 
 The four Songs commence as follows : — 
 
 PACK 
 
 1 . Marsk Stig he out of the coimtry rode 
 
 To luin him fame with his good bright sivord . . 5 
 
 2. Marsk Stig he woke at black midnight, 
 
 And hnidly cried to his Lady dear 15 
 
 3. There^s 7nany I ween in Denmark green 
 
 Who all to be masters 7WW desire 23 
 
 4. There were seven and seven times tiventy 
 
 That met upon the verdant wold 34 
 
 Marsk Stig was one of the ballads prepared by Borrow for 
 The Songs of Scandinavia in 1829, and revised for the Kampe 
 Vise r in 1854. Both Manuscripts are extant, and I give repro- 
 ductions of a page of each. It will be observed that upon the 
 margins of the earlier Manuscript Borrow wrote his revisions, so 
 that this Manuscript practically carries in itself both versions of 
 the ballad. The Manuscript of 1829 is in the possession of 
 Mr. J. H. Spoor, of Chicago. The Manuscript of 1854 is in my 
 own library. As a specimen of Marsk Stig I quote the following 
 stanzas : 
 
 // was the young and bold Marsk Stig 
 
 Came riding into the Castle yard, 
 
 Abroad did stand the King of the land 
 
 So fair array d in sable and mard. 
 
 " Nojv lend an ear, young Afarshal Stig, 
 
 I have for thee a fair emprise. 
 Ride thou this year to the war and bear 
 
 My flag amongst my enemies." 
 
 "And if I shall fare to the ivar this year, 
 
 And risk my life ainong thy foes, 
 Do thou take care of my Lady dear. 
 
 Of Ingeborg, that beauteous rose." 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Then answer' d Erik, the youthful King, 
 
 With a laugh in his sleeve thus answer' d he 
 
 " No more I swear has thy lady to fear 
 Than if my sister dear were she." 
 
 It ivas then the bold Sir Marshal Stig, 
 From out of the coimtry he did depart, 
 
 In her castle sate his lonely mate, 
 Fair Ingeborg, with grief at heart. 
 
 ^^ Now saddle my steed,'' cried E)'ic the King, 
 " Nozv saddle my steed," King Eric cried, 
 
 " To visit the Dame of beauteous fame 
 Your Kins: ivill into the count rv ride." 
 
 '■'■ Noiv list, nozv list. Dame Ingeborg, 
 Thou art, I swear, a beauteous star. 
 
 Live thou with 7ne in love atid glee. 
 
 Whilst Marshal Stig is engagd in ivar." 
 
 Then up and spake Dame Ingeboj-g, 
 
 For nought zvas she but a virtuous ivife : 
 
 " Rather, I say, than Stig betray, 
 Sir King, Fd gladly lose my life." 
 
 " Give ear, thou proud Dame Ingeborg, 
 If thou my leman arid love ivill be. 
 
 Each finger fair of thy hand shall bear 
 A ring of gold so red of blee." 
 
 " Marsk Stig has given gold rings to me. 
 And pearls around my neck to string ; 
 
 By the Saints above I tiever will prove 
 Untrue to the Marshal's couch, Sir King. 
 
'Ami 'Mvh, '»VAH- OY Kw\u ftlA)i. HkOjV 
 
 Ahi *vW.<W'W Mki %\ ^f%i At Will ^t 
 
 ^W W ^^-^ HVH/v~'Ai".'H..^' 
 
 Q i > ' ^. I '- , \ 
 
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 'rAiiri nifh- KHi! Hri 'm H'tii 
 
THE SERPENT KNIGHT 
 
 OTHER BALLADS 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDITIONES P RING /PES, ETC. 127 
 
 // was Erik the Danish King, 
 
 A damnable deed the King he wrought : 
 He fore' d ivith might that Lady bright. 
 Whilst her good Lord his battles fought. 
 * * * * 
 
 // was the young Sir Marshal Stig 
 
 Stepfd proudly in at the lofty door ; 
 And bold knights then, and bold knighfs men, 
 
 Stood up the Marshal Stig before. 
 So up to the King of the land he goes, 
 
 And straight to make his plaint began ; 
 Then murmured loud the assembled crowd, 
 
 And clencKd his fist each honest man. 
 
 " Ye good men hear a tale of fear, 
 A tale of horror, a tale of hell — 
 
 There is a copy of Marsk Stig A Ballad in the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [The Serpent Knight: 1913] 
 
 The Serpent Knight / and / Other Ballads / By / 
 
 George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 
 Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 35 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4; Table of 
 Contents (with blank reverse) pp. 5 — 6 ; and Text 
 of the Ballads pp. 7 — 35. There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title 
 of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the 
 reverse of p. 35 is the following imprint : ''London :/ 
 
128 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.VV.j 
 Edition limited to thirty copies." The signatures are 
 A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), plus B & C (two 
 sheets, each eight leaves), inset within each other. 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure Si x 6| inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Cotitents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Serpent Knight. [Signelil sits in her boiver a/one] ... 7 
 The only extant MS. of this ballad originally bore the title 7'he 
 Transforvied Knight, but the word Transformed is struck out 
 and replaced by Serpent, in Borrow's handwriting. 
 
 Sir Olaf. \Sir Olaf rides on his courser tair\ 10 
 
 Sir Olaf is one of Borrow's most successful ballads. The only 
 extant Manuscript is written upon paper water-marked with -the 
 date 1845, and was prepared for the projected Kxmpe Viser. 
 
 The Treacherous Merman. [" Notv rede me mother,''' the 
 
 merman cried] 15 
 
 This Ballad is a later, and greatly improved, version of one which 
 appeared under the title The Merman only, in the Romantic 
 Ballads of 1826. The introduction of the incident of the changing 
 by magic of the horse into a boat, furnishes a reason for the 
 catastrophe which was lacking in the earlier version. 
 In its final shape The Treacherous Merman is another of Borrow's 
 most successful ballads, and it is evident that he bestowed upon it 
 an infinite amount of care and labour. An early draft of the final 
 version [a reduced facsimile of its first page will be found ante, 
 facing p. 40] bears the tentative title Marsk Stig's Daughter. 
 Besides the two printed versions Borrow certainly composed a 
 third, for a fragment exists of a third MS., the text of which differs 
 considerably from that of both the others. 
 
 The Knight in the Deer's Shape. [// was tJie Knight Sir 
 
 Peter] 18 
 
 Facing the present page is a reduced facsimile of the first page of 
 the Manuscript of The Knight in the Deer's Shape. 
 
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EDIT/ONES PRINCJPES, ETC. 131 
 
 The Stalwart Monk. [Above the wood a cloister t02vers] ... 24 
 
 TAe Stalwart Monk was composed by Borrow about the year i860. 
 Whether he had worked upon the ballad in earlier years cannot 
 be ascertained, as no other Manuscript besides that from which it 
 was printed in the present volume is known to exist. 
 
 The Cruel Step-Dame. [My father up of the country rode] . 30 
 The Cuckoo. [Yonder the cuckoo flutters] 34 
 
 The complete Manuscript of The Serpent Knight and Other 
 Ballads is in my own collection of Borroviana. 
 
 There is a copy of The Serpent Knight and Other Ballads 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. 
 d. 38. 
 
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 [The King's Wake: 1913]- 
 
 The King's Wake / and Other Ballads / By / 
 George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation / 1913. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 23 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 of the Ballads pp. 5 — 23. There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title 
 of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the 
 reverse of p. 23 is the following imprint : " London : / 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures 
 are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), with B (a full 
 sheet of eight leaves) inset within it. 
 
 K 2 
 
132 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| x 6§ inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The King's Wake. [To-night is the night that the ivake they 
 
 hold\ 5 
 
 An early draft of this ballad has the title The Watchuight. 
 Swayne Felding. \Swayne Felding sits at Hehi7igho7'g\ . . lo 
 
 Of Swayne Felding two Manuscripts are extant. One, originally 
 destined for The Songs of Scandinavia, is written upon white paper 
 water-marked with the date 1828. The other, written upon blue 
 paper, was prepared for the Kceinpe Vise7- of 1854. In the earlier 
 MS. the ballad bears the title Swayne Felding' s Combat with (he 
 Giant ; the later MS. is entitled Sivayne Felding only. The texts 
 of the; two MSS. differ widely. 
 
 Innocence Defamed. [Misfortune comes to every door] . . 20 
 
 The heroic ballads included in these collections are all far too 
 long to admit of any one of them being given in full. As an 
 example of the shorter ballads I quote the title-poem of the 
 present pamphlet, The King's JVake : 
 
 THE KING'S ]]'AKE * 
 
 To-night is the night that the wake they hold, 
 To the wake repair both yonng and old. 
 
 Proud Signelil she her mother address d : 
 '"May I go watch along witli the restV 
 
 " what at the ivake wouldst do my dear? 
 Thou'st neither sister nor brother there. 
 
 * A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of The A'ing's 
 IVake will be found facing page 1 36. 
 
THE KING'S WAKE 
 
 AND othp:r ballads 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 135 
 
 "" Nor brotJier-iii-law to pivted thy youth, 
 To the wake thou must not go forsooth. 
 
 " There be the King and his tvarriors gay, 
 If me thou list thou at home wilt stay." 
 
 " But the Queen will be there and her maiden crew, 
 Pray let tne go, mother, the dance to view.'''' 
 
 So long, so long begged the maiden young. 
 
 That at length frotn her 7nother consent she wrung. 
 
 " Then go, my child, if thou Jieeds must go, 
 But thy mother ne'er 7vejit to the wake I trow." 
 
 Then through the thick forest the maiden went, 
 To reach the wake her mind was bent. 
 
 When o'er the green meadoivs she had W07i, 
 The Queen and her maidens to bed were gofte. 
 
 And when she came to the castle gate 
 
 They were plying the dance at a furious rate. 
 
 There danced full many a mail-clad man. 
 And the youthful King he led the van. 
 
 He stretched forth his hand with an air so free : 
 " Wilt dance, thou pretty maid, with me ? " 
 
 " 0, sir, I've come across the wold 
 
 That I with the Queen discourse might hold'' 
 
 " Come dafice," said the King with a courteous smile, 
 " The Queen will be here in a little while." 
 
 Then forzvard she stepped like a blushing rose, 
 She takes his hand and to dance she goes. 
 
136 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 " Hear Sig/ielil 7(>hat I say to thee., 
 A ditty of love sing thou to me.'" 
 
 " A ditty of love I will not., Sir King, 
 But as 7vell as I can another I'll sing." 
 
 Proud Signil began, a ditty she sang. 
 
 To the ears of the Queen in her bed it rang 
 
 Says the Queen in her chamber as she lay : 
 " O which of mv maidens doth sing so gay ? 
 
 " O which of my maidens doth si?tg so late, 
 To bed why foltoived they me not straight ? " 
 
 Then answered the Queen the little foot page : 
 "'Tis none of thy maidens Til engage. 
 
 ^^^Tis none I'll engage of the maiden band, 
 '' Tis Signil proud from the islefs strand." 
 
 " O b?-i?ig my red mantle hither to me. 
 For I'll go do7vn this maid to see" 
 
 And when they came dotun to the castle gate 
 The dance it moved at so brave a rate. 
 
 About and around they danced with glee. 
 There stood the Quee?i and the whole did see. 
 
 The Queen she felt so sore aggrieved 
 When the King with Signil she perceived. 
 
 Sophia the Queen, to her maid did sign : 
 " Go fetch me hither a horn of wine." 
 
 His hand the King stretched forth so free : 
 " Wilt thou Sophia my partner be ?" 
 
[ 
 
 
 i 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 139 
 
 " O I'll not dance with thee, I vow. 
 Unless proud Sigtii I pledge me hoick'" 
 
 The horn she raised to her lips, at hirst. 
 The innocent heart in her bosom burst. 
 
 There stood King Valdemar pale as clay, 
 Stone dead at his feet the maiden lay. 
 
 " A fairer maid since I first dreiv breath 
 Ne'er came tnore guiltless to her death." 
 
 For her wept ivoman and maid so sore, 
 
 To the Church her beauteous corse they bore. 
 
 But better with her it would have sped. 
 Had she but heard what her mother said. 
 
 There is a copy of The King's Wake and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [The Dalby Bear: 191 3] 
 
 The Dalby Bear / and Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Colliition : — Square demy octavo, pp. 20; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 of the Ballads pp. 5 — 20. There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title of 
 
140 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 the particular Ballad occw'^y'wig'Vi. At the foot of 
 p. 20 is the following imprint : " London I Printed for 
 Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. IV. j Edition limited 
 to Thirty Copies!' The signatures are A (a quarter- 
 sheet of two leaves), with B (a full sheet of 8 leaves) 
 inset within it. 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8-0- X 6\ inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 'AGE 
 
 The Dalby Bear. \There goes a bear on Dalby inoors\ . . 5 
 
 Tygge Hermandsen. [Down o'er the isle in torretits fell] . . 9 
 
 The ballad was printed from a Manuscript written in 1854. I give 
 
 a reduced facsimile of a page of an earlier Manuscript written in 
 
 1830. 
 
 The Wicked Stepmother. [Sir Ove he has no daughter but 
 
 one] • . . . . 14 
 
 This ballad should be read in conjunction with T/ie IVicked Step- 
 mother, No. a, printed in Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes 
 aud Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 23-27. 
 
 The complete Manuscript of The Dalby Bear and Other 
 Ballads is in the library of Mr. Clement Shorter. 
 
 There is a copy of The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [The Mermaid's Prophecy: 1913] 
 
 The / Mermaid's Prophecy / and other / Songs 
 
 relating to Queen Dagmar / By / George Borrow / 
 
 London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 

 
 
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EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 143 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 30 ; consisting of 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Songs pp. 5^30. There are head-lines through- 
 out, each page being headed with the title of the par- 
 ticular Song occupying it. Following p. 30 is a leaf, 
 with a notice regarding the American copyright 
 upon the reverse, and with the following imprint 
 upon its recto: "■ London : \ Printed for Thomas J. 
 Wise, Hampstcad, N. IV. / Edition limited to TJiirty 
 Copies!' The signatures are A and B (two sheets, 
 each eight leaves), the one inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8f x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 I'AGE 
 
 Songs relating to Queen Dagmar : 
 
 I. King Valdemar's Wooing. [ Valdemar King and Sir 
 
 Strange bold'\ 5 
 
 II. Queen Dagmar's Arrival in Denmark. [// 7vas 
 
 Bohemians Queen degan] 14 
 
 III. The Mermaid's Prophecy. \^The King he has caiight 
 
 the fair mer7naid, and deep'\ 19. 
 
 Rosmer. \_Buckshank bold and ElJinstofie'\ 25 
 
 This ballad should be read in conjunction with Rosmer Mereman, 
 printed in Young Swaigder or The Force of Runes and Other 
 Ballads, 1913, pp. 16-22. 
 
 Of The Mermaid's Prophecy there are two Manuscripts extant. 
 In the earlier of these, written in 1829, the Poem is entided The 
 Mermaid's Prophecy. In the later Manuscript, written apparently 
 
144 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 about the year 1854, it is entitled The Mermaid only. From this 
 later Manuscript the Poem was printed in the present volume. 
 
 Unlike the majority of Borrow's Manuscripts, which usually 
 exhibit extreme differences of text when two holograi)hs exist of 
 the same Poem, the texts of the two versions of The Mermaid's 
 Prophecy are practically identical, the opening stanza alone present- 
 ing any important variation. Here are the two versions of this 
 stanza : 
 
 1829 
 
 The Dane King had the Mermaiden caught by his swains, 
 
 The mermaid dances the floor vpon — 
 And her in the tower had loaded with chains, 
 
 Because his will she had not done. 
 
 1854 
 The King he iias caught the fair mermaid, and deep 
 
 ( The mermaid dances the floor upofi) 
 In the dungeon has placed her, to pine and to weep, 
 
 Because his will she had not done. 
 
 There is a copy of The MerDumfs Prophecy and other Songs 
 rehiting to Queen Dagmar in the Library of the British Museum. 
 The Press mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
 (25.) 
 [Hafbur and Signe : 1913] 
 
 Hafbur and Slgne / A Ballad / By / George Borrow / 
 London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 23; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1—2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 
HAFBUR AND SIGNE 
 
 A BALLAD 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 TRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 147 
 
 of the Ballad pp. 5 — 23. The head-line is Hafbur 
 and Signe throughout, upon both sides of the page. 
 Upon the reverse of p. 23 is the following imprint : 
 " London : j Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hamp- 
 stead, N. W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies. The 
 signatures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), with 
 B (a full sheet of eight leaves) inset within it. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 Contents. 
 
 1'Ac;e 
 
 Hafbur and Signe. [ Young Hafiiir Kifig and Sivard King 
 
 They lived in bitter enmity'] 5 
 
 Of Hafbur and Signe two Manuscripts are extant. The first of 
 these was doubtless written in the early summer of 1830, for on 
 Jufie ist of that year Borrow wrote to Dr. Bowring : 
 
 I send you "■Hafbur and Signe " to deposit in the Scandina- 
 vian Treasury [i.e. among the Songs of Scaftdinavia\ 
 
 The later Manuscript was written in or about the year 1854. 
 
 The earlier of these two Manuscripts is in the collection of 
 Mr. Herbert T. Butler. The later Manuscript is in my own 
 library. 
 
 As is usually the case when two Manuscripts of one of Borrow's 
 ballads are available, the difference in poetical value of the two 
 versions of Hafbur and Signe is considerable. Few examples 
 could exhibit more distinctly the advance made by Borrow in the 
 art of poetical composition during the interval. Here are some 
 stanzas from the version of 1854. 
 
 L 2 
 
148 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 So late it was at nightly tide, 
 
 Dowti fell the dew o'er hill aiid mead ; 
 
 Then lists it her proud Signild fair 
 With all the rest to bed to speed. 
 
 " O where shall I a bed procure ? " 
 
 Said Hafbur then, the King's good son. 
 " O thou shall rest in chamber best 
 With me the bolsters blue 7ipon." 
 
 Proud Signild foremost 7ve?if, and stepped 
 The threshold of her chamber o'er ; 
 
 With secret glee came Haflmr, he 
 Had never been so glad before. 
 
 Then lighted they the zvaxen lights, 
 So fairly twisted were the same. 
 
 Behind, behind, with ill at mind, 
 The wicked servant maiden came. 
 
 The following are the parallel stanzas from the version of 1830 
 
 So late it was in the nightly tide, 
 
 Dew fell o'er hill and mead ; 
 
 Then listed her proud Signild fair 
 
 With the rest to bed to speed. 
 
 " O whei'e shall I a bed procure ? " 
 
 Said Hafbour the King's good son. 
 " hi the chamber best with me thou shall rest. 
 
 The bolsters blue ipon." 
 
 Proud Signild foremost went and stepped 
 
 The high chambei^'s threshold o'er. 
 Prince Hafbour came after with secret laughter. 
 
 He d ?ie'er been delio-hted ??iore 
 

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EDITIONES PRIIVCIPES, ETC. 153 
 
 T/iefi lighted they the zvaxen lights, 
 
 Fair twisted were the same. 
 Behind, behind tvith ill in her mind 
 
 The wicked servant came. 
 
 I give herewith a reduced facsimile of the last page of eacH 
 Manuscript. 
 
 There is a copy oi Haflmr and Signe A Balhxd'\x\ the Library 
 of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [The Story of Yvashka : 19 13] 
 
 The Story / of / Yvashka with the Bear's Ear / 
 Translated from the Russian / By / George Borrow / 
 London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 23 ; consisting of: 
 Half title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Frontispiece 
 (with blank recto) pp. 3 — 4 ; Title-page, as above 
 (with blank reverse) pp. 5 — 6 ; Introduction (by 
 Borrow) pp. 7 — 10 ; and Text of the Story pp. 1 1 — 
 23. The head-line is Yvashka with the Bear's Ear 
 throughout, upon both sides of the page. Upon the 
 reverse of p. 23 is the following imprint : " London : / 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hauipstead, N. IV. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The signatures 
 are A (a half sheet of 4 leaves), and B (a full sheet 
 of 8 leaves), the one inset within the other. 
 
154 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 The Frontispiece consists of a reduced facsinriile of the first 
 page of the original Manuscript in Borrow's handwriting. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8^ x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The Story of Yvashka was the second of three Russian Popular 
 Tales, which were contributed by Borrow to the pages of Once a 
 Week during 1862. The Story of Yvashka appeared in the 
 number for May iph, 1862, Vol. vi, pp. 572-574. 
 
 The Stoiy was reprinted in The Sphere, Feb. 1st, 19 13, p. 136. 
 
 The Text of Yvashka as printed in Once a Week differs 
 appreciably from that printed in The Sphere, and in the private 
 pamphlet of 19 13, both of which are identical. The Manuscript 
 from which the two latter versions were taken was the original trans- 
 lation. The version which appeared in 07ice a Week was printed 
 from a fresh Manuscript (which fills 1 1 quarto pages) prepared in 
 1862. A reduced facsimile of the first page of the earlier Manu- 
 script (which extends to 5^ quarto pages) will be found repro- 
 duced upon the opposite page. In this Manuscript the story is 
 entitled The Histojy of Jack with the Bear's Ear. 
 
 Judging from the appearance of this MS., both paper ar>d handwriting, 
 together with that of fragments which remain of the original MSS. of the 
 other two published Tales, it seems probable that the whole were produced by 
 Borrow during his residence in St. Petersburg. Should such surmise be 
 correct, the Tales are contemporary with Targtim. 
 
 The Once a Week version of The Story of Yvashka was reprinted 
 in The Avon Booklet, Vol. ii, 1904, pp. 199-210. 
 
 There is a copy of The Story of Yvashka in the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 37. 
 
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 .{Ia a 'yyiw^ A^ oA^^n ^rlJh .A w4 4 ^ii Lv ^^i i^,i ; imi \im^AA (to J 
 ijmiviw.':; ^km%h nf^ii MrW^ «A(jv^4r,v ilif.'>^^ ':i^M *^mi \vkm M Wwdtd '^ 
 
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 ,^?i\'.vV iM \ ^\ m '{^M ^-lu (n«k \ 
 
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 j I 
 
 i.iimcd'! \|fii| 
 
EDIT/ONES PR INC /PES, ETC. 157 
 
 (27) 
 
 [The Verner Raven : 19 13] 
 
 The Verner Raven / The Count of Vendel's / 
 
 Daughter / and Other Ballads / By / George 
 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 27. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : 
 '' London I Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Harnpstead, 
 N.W. I Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The 
 signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B 
 (a half sheet of 4 leaves), and C (a full sheet of 8 
 leaves), all inset within each other. 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 
 The leaves measure 8; 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Verner Raven. [The Raven he flies in the evening tide'] 5 
 The Count of Vendel's Daughter. [ Within a boiver the 
 
 womb I left] 12 
 
 Previously printed in Once a Week, \"ol. viii, January yd, 1863, 
 PP- 35-36. 
 
158 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 TAGE 
 
 The Cruel Mother-in-1 aw. \^From his home and his country 
 
 Sir Vohnor should fare] 1 8 
 
 The Faithful King of Thule. \_A King so true and steady] 2 5 
 
 The Fairies' Song. \_BaImy the evening air] 27 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first 
 time in this volume. 
 
 The Manuscript of The Count of VendeFs Daughter is included 
 in the extensive collection of Borroviana belonging to Mr. 
 F. J. Farrell, of Great Yarmouth. 
 
 There is a copy of The Verner Raven, The CoiDit of VetidePs 
 Daughter, and Other Ballads in the Library of the British 
 Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
 (28) 
 
 [The Return of the Dead : 191 3] 
 
 The / Return of the Dead / and Other Ballads / By / 
 George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 22: consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 of the Ballads pp. 5 — 22. There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title of 
 the particular Ballad occupying it. Following p. 22 
 is a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the following 
 imprint upon its recto : " London : j Printed for 
 Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. j Edition limited 
 to Thirty copies!' The signatures are A (a half- 
 sheet of four leaves), with B (a full sheet of eight 
 leaves), inset within it. 
 
THE 
 
 RETURN OF THE DEAD 
 
 AND OTHER BALLADS 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
ED I TI ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. i6i 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8|- x 6J inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Co7ite7its. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Return of the Dead. {^Sivayne Dyrhtg o'er to the 
 
 islafid strayed] 5 
 
 The Transformed Damsel. \I take my axe iipon my back] . 13 
 
 The Forced Consent. \_]Vithin her own fair castelaye] . . 15 
 Ingeborg's Disguise. \_Such hatidsome court clothes the proud 
 
 Ingehorg buys] 19 
 
 Song. \^rve pleas2ire 7iot a little] 22 
 
 As a further example of Sorrow's shorter Ballads, I give 
 J/igeborg's Disguise in full. The entire series included in The 
 Return of the Dead attd Other Ballads ranks among the most 
 uniformly successful of Sorrow's achievements in this particular 
 branch of literature : — 
 
 INGEBORG'S DISGUISE * 
 
 Such ha?idso}?ie coiirt clothes the proud Ifigeborg buys, 
 Says she, "I'll myself as a courtier disguise." 
 
 Proud Ingeborg hastens her steed to bestride. 
 Says she., ''''Ill away with the Kitig to reside." 
 
 " Thou gallant young King to my speech lend an ear. 
 Hast thou any ?teed of my services here ? " 
 
 " O yes, my sweet lad, of a horseboy Ive fieed, 
 If there were but stable room here for his steed. 
 
 * Facing the following page will be found a reduced facsimile of the first 
 page of the Manuscript of Ingeborg's Disguise. 
 
 M 
 
i62 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 '■'■But thy steed in the stall ivith my own can be tied, 
 And thou ' neath the linen shall sleep by my side." 
 
 Three years in the palace good service she w?-oiight 
 That she was a woman no one ever thought. 
 
 She filled for three years of a horse-boy the place, 
 And the steeds of the monarch she drove out to graze. 
 
 She led for three years the King's steeds to the brook, 
 For else than a youth no one Ingeborg took. 
 
 Proud Ingeborg knoivs how to make the dames gay, 
 She also can sing in such ravishing tvay. 
 
 The hair on her head is like yellow spun gold, 
 To her beauty the heart of the prince zvas not cold. 
 
 But at length up and down in the palace she strayed. 
 Her colour and hair began swiftly to fade. 
 
 What eye has seen ever so wondrous a case 1 
 The boy his own spurs to his heel cannot brace. 
 
 The horse-boy is brought to so wondrous a plight, 
 To draw his own weapon he has not the might. 
 
 The son of the King to five damsels now sends. 
 And Ingeborg fair to their care he commends. 
 
 Proud Ingeborg took they and wrapped in their iveed, 
 And to the stone chamber with her they proceed. 
 
 Upon the blue cushions they Ingeborg laid. 
 Where light of two beautiful sons she is made. 
 
 Then iti came the prince, smiled the babies to view : 
 " ^Tis not evefy horse-boy can bear such a two." 
 

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 "V^ -. ,.v V^''' 
 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC 165 
 
 He patted her soft on her cheek sleek and fair : 
 " Forget my hearfs dearest all sorrow afid care." 
 
 He placed the gold crown on her temples I ween : 
 
 " With ?ne shall thou live as my wife and fny Queen." 
 
 The complete Manuscript of The Return of the Dead and Other 
 Ballads is in my own library. 
 
 There is a copy of The Return of the Dead a?id Other Ballads 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is 
 C.44.d.38- 
 
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 [Axel Thordson : 19 13] 
 
 Axel Thordson / and Fair Valborg / A Ballad / By/ 
 George. Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 45 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a notice regarding the American 
 copyright upon the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and text of 
 t\\Q Ballad pp. 5 — 45. The head-line is Axel Thordson 
 and Fair Valborg throughout, upon both sides of 
 the page. Upon the reverse of p. 45 is the following 
 imprint : " London : / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, 
 Hampstead, N. W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' 
 The signatures are A to C (Three sheets, each eight 
 leaves) inset within each other. The last leaf of 
 Sig. C is a blank. 
 
1 66 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| X 6| inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg. [At the ivide board at 
 
 tables play^ 5 
 
 In some respects Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg is the most 
 ambitious of Sorrow's Ballads. It is considerably the longest, 
 unless we regard the four " Songs " of which Marsk Stig is com- 
 prised as forming one complete poem. But it is by no means the 
 most successful ; indeed it is invariably in his shorter Ballads that 
 we find Borrow obtaining the happiest result. 
 
 Two Manuscripts of Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg are 
 available. The first was prepared in 1829 for the Songs of 
 Scafidinavia. The second was revised in 1854 for the Kcempe 
 Viser This later Manuscript is in my own possession. 1 give 
 herewith a reduced facsimile of one of its pages. 
 
 There is a copy of Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C.44.d.38. 
 
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 [King H agon's Death : 191 3] 
 
 King Hacon's Death / and / Bran and the Black 
 Dog / Two Ballads / By / George Borrow / 
 London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 14; consisting of: Half- 
 title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as 
 
J^'Hrl^i 'Vi III l^i \rkiluvx'. 
 
 m ^Ud l\^. W ^.jAi Hvnl^ ^Wj^^ 
 
 Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg—x'i'^i,. 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. i6g 
 
 above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Two Ballads pp. 5 — 14. There are head-Hnes 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title of 
 the particular Ballad occu^py\x\g it. Following p. 14 
 is a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the following 
 imprint upon its recto, " London : / Printed for 
 Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. j Edition limited 
 to Thirty Copies^ There are no signatures, the 
 pamphlet being composed of a single sheet, folded 
 to form sixteen pages. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 7| X 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 King Hacon's Death. [" And now has happened in our day"] 5 
 Bran and the Black Dog. [" The day ive went to the hills 
 
 to chase "] 11 
 
 I venture to regard this ballad of the fight between Bran and 
 the Black Dog as one of Borrow's happiest efforts. Here are 
 some of its vigorous stanzas : 
 
 The valiant Finn arose next day. 
 
 Just as the sun rose above the foam ; 
 And he beheld up the Lairgo way, 
 
 A man clad in red with a black dog come. 
 
 He came up ivith a lofty gait, 
 
 Said not for shelter he sought our doors ; 
 
 A fid zvanted neither drink tior meat, 
 
 But would niatch his dog 'gainst the best of ours. 
 
lyo BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 "A strano;e fight t/iis," the great Finn said, 
 As he turn'd his face towards his clan ; 
 
 Then his face with rage grew fiery red, 
 
 And he struck tvith his fist his good dog Bran. 
 
 " Take ofi^ from his neck the collar of gold, 
 Not right for him 7iow such a thing to bear ; 
 
 And a free good fight ive shall behold 
 Betwixt ?ny dog and his black compeer." 
 
 The dogs their noses together placed, 
 
 Then their blood ivas scatter' d on every side ; 
 Desperate the fight, and the fight did last 
 
 ' 2711 the brave black dog in Bra?i's grip died. 
 * * * * 
 
 We went to the dwelling of high Mac Ciwl, 
 
 With the King to drink., and dice, and throw ; 
 The Ki7ig was joyous, his hall was full, 
 
 Though empty and dark this night I trow. 
 
 There is a copy of King Hacon's Death and Bran and the 
 Black Dog in the Library of the British Museum. The Press- 
 mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [Marsk Stig's Daughters: 1913] 
 
 Marsk Stig's / Daughters / and other / Songs and 
 Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : / Printed 
 for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 21; consisting of: Half- 
 title (with blank reverse), pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as 
 
MARSK STIG'S 
 DAUGHTERS 
 
 AND OTHER 
 
 SONGS AND BALLADS 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDITIONES PR INC/PES, ETC. 173 
 
 above (with blank reverse), pp. 3 — 4 ; Table of 
 Contents, pp. 5 — 6 ; and Text of the Songs and 
 Ballads, pp. 7 — 21, The reverse of p. 21 is blank. 
 The head-line is Songs and Ballads throughout, 
 upon both sides of the page. The pamphlet con- 
 cludes with a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the 
 following imprint upon its recto : " London : / 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies^ There are no 
 signatures, but the pamphlet consists of a half-sheet 
 (of four leaves), with a full sheet (of eight leaves) 
 inset within it. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 7j X 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Cc7i tents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Marsk Stig's Daughters. [Two dmighters fair the Marshal 
 
 had] - 7 
 
 The Three Expectants. \_There are three for my death that 
 
 now pine] 11 
 
 Translation. \_One suj?i7ner morn, as I was seeking] . ... 13 
 
 The English Gijisy : 
 
 He. \_As I to the toivn zuas going one day 
 
 My Roman lass I met by the zvay] .... 14 
 
 She. \As I to the town was going one day 
 
 I met a young Roman upon the way] ... 14 
 
 The first of these two stanzas had been printed previously in 
 Romano Lavo-Lil, 1874, p. 183. 
 
174 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Gipsy Song. \_Up, up, brothers^ i6 
 
 The first stanza of this Song was printed previously (under the title Kun 
 for it!) in Romano Lavo-Lil, 1874, p. 195. 
 
 Our Heart is Heavy, Brother. {The strength of the ox\ . . 17 
 Another version of this poem was printed previously (under the 
 title Sor7-owful Tears, and with an entirely different text) in 
 Romatto Lavo-Lil, 1874, p. 211. 
 
 In order to give some clear idea of the difterence between the two 
 versions, I quote the opening stanza of each : 
 
 1874. 
 The wit and the skill 
 Of the Father of ill. 
 
 Who's clever indeed. 
 If they would hope 
 With their foes to cope 
 
 The Romany need. 
 
 The strength of the ox, 
 The wit of the fox. 
 
 And the leveret's speed ; 
 All, all to oppose 
 Their numerous foes 
 
 The Romany need. 
 
 Song. [Nastrond's blazes] 19 
 
 Another version of this Sotg was printed previously (divided up, 
 and with many textual variations) in The Death of Balder, 1899, 
 PP- 53—54- 
 
 Lines. \To read the great mysterious Past] 21 
 
 As a specimen of Borrow's lighter lyrical verse, as distinguished 
 from his Ballads, I give the text of the Translation noted above, 
 accompanied by a facsimile of the first page of the MS. : 
 TRANSLATION. 
 One summer morn, as I was seeking 
 
 My ponies in their green retreat, 
 I heard a lady sing a ditty 
 
 To me which sounded strangely sweet : 
 
Wiy- alitor Wm^ ^ %w.\t r'c;:| 
 
ED/TIONES FRI.YCIPES, l-.TC. 177 
 
 / am tin ladyc, I am the /adye, 
 
 I am the laiiye loving the knight ; 
 I in the screen wood, ^neath the green branches. 
 
 In the night season sleep with the knight. 
 
 Since yoniler summer morn of beauty 
 
 I've seen full many a gloomy year ; 
 But in my mind still lives the ditty 
 
 That in the green wood met my ear : 
 
 / am the ladyc, 1 am the ladye, 
 
 I am the ladye loving the knight : 
 I in the gi'een wood, 'neath the green branches. 
 
 In the night season sleep with the knight. 
 
 A second Manuscript of this Translation has the ' ditly ' 
 arranged in eight Hnes, instead of in four. In this MS. the 
 word ladye is spelled in the conventional manner : 
 
 / am the lady, 
 
 I am the lady, 
 
 I am the lady 
 Loving the knight : 
 
 I in the greemvood, 
 
 ^ Neath t lie green branches, 
 
 Throngli the night season- 
 Sleep with the knight. 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for the first 
 time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Marsk Sl/g's Daughters and other Songs and 
 Ballads in the Library of the British xMuseum. The Press-mark 
 is C. 44- d. 38. 
 
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 [The Tale uf Bkvxild : 1913] 
 
 The Tale of Brynild / and / King Valdemar and his 
 Sister / Two Ballads / By / George Borrow / 
 London : , Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 X 
 
178 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 35 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page 
 as above (with a notice regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of the 
 Ballads pp. 5—35. There are head-lines throughout, 
 each page being headed with the title of the par- 
 ticular Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse of 
 p. 35 is the following imprint : " Loudon : / Printed 
 for TJiomas J. Wise, Harnpstead. N.JV. / Edition 
 limited to Thirty Copies'' The signatures are A (a 
 quarter-sheet of two leaves), and B and C (two 
 sheets, each eight leaves), each inset within the 
 other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 
 The leaves measure 8^ x 6| inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Tale of Brynild. \_Sivard he a colt has got'] 5 
 
 Of The Tale of Brynild, two manuscripts are extant, written in 1829 
 and 1854 respectively. The text of the latter, from which the 
 ballad was printed in the present pamphlet, is immeasiuably the 
 superior. 
 
 King Valdemar and his sister. \See, see, 7vith Queen Sophy 
 
 sits Valdemar hold] • 13 
 
 Mirror of Cintra. ^Tiny fields in charming order] .... 34 
 The Harp. \^The harp to evetyone is dear] 35 
 
 There can be little doubt that the series of poems included in 
 this volume present Borrow at his best as a writer of Ballads. 
 
 There is a copy of The Tale of Brynild and King Valdemar 
 and his Sister in the Library of the British Museum. The Press- 
 mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
THE TALE OF BRYNILD 
 
 AND 
 
 KING VALDEMAR AND HIS SISTER 
 
 TWO BALLADS 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDIT/ ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. i8i 
 
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 [Proud Sk^nild : 1913] 
 
 Proud Signild / and / Other Ballads , By / George 
 Borrow London : Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: Square demy octavo, pp. 28; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a notice regarding the American 
 copyright upon the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Ballads pp. 5 — 28. There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title 
 of the particular i)rt://rt</ occupying it. At the foot 
 of p. 28 is the following imprint : " London : 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures 
 are A (six leaves), and B (a full sheet of eight 
 leaves), the one inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with the title-page 
 reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8^ x 6| 
 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Proud Signild. [Proud Signild s hold brothers have taken 
 
 her hand] 5 
 
 The Damsel of the Wood. [ The Knight fakes hawk, and 
 
 the man takes hound] 1 6 
 
 Damsel Mettie. [Knights Peter and Ohif they sat der the 
 
 board] 22 
 
i82 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 As is the case with quite a number of Borrow's ballads, two Manu- 
 scripts of Z'awjc/ il/t/Z/g have been preserved. The earlier, com- 
 posed not later tlian 1829, is written upon paper water-marked with 
 the date 1828 ; the later is written upon paper water-marked 1843. 
 The earlier version has a refrain, " ''Neath the linden tree watches the 
 lord of my heart" which is wanting in the later. Otherwise the 
 text of both MSS. is identical, the differences to be observed 
 between them being merely verbal. For example, the seventh 
 couplet in the earlier reads : 
 
 /'// gage my war courser, the steady and tried. 
 
 That thou canst not obtain the fair Mettie, my bride. 
 
 In the later MS. this couplet reads : 
 
 I'll gage my war courser, the steady and tried. 
 Thou never canst lure the fair Afettie, my bride. 
 
 There is a copy of Proud Signild and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [Ulf Van Yern : 1913] 
 
 Ulf Van Yern / and / Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page 
 (with notice regarding the American copyright upon 
 the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of the Ballads 
 pp. 5 — 27. There are head-lines throughout, each 
 page being headed with the title of the particular 
 Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 27 is 
 the following imprint : " London : / Printed for 
 
m\\ Itnt UvV '\ii^ vniil W \m l!i^Mlt^^^!l ^.' 
 
 HlHv V.H\ UWV U^H IV [.^ (fajikt |\1M. InJu.^' 
 
 ,.-tr r [■mil*! 
 
L i..xl 
 
 
 
 J' ' - \m 1 M M II 
 
EDITIONES PR/NC/PES, ETC. 187 
 
 Thomas J. U'/sr, Hauipstcad, N.JV./^ Edition liniiicd 
 to TJiirty Copies." The signatures are A (a quarter- 
 sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four leaves), 
 and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), all inset within 
 each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i X 6f inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contefits. 
 UlfVanYern. [It was youthful (J// l^an Yeni] ''^'5 
 
 This ballad was here printed from the Manuscript prepared for the 
 projected Kaiiipe Viser of 1854. In the MS. of 1829 the ballad is 
 entitled Ulf Van Yern and Vidri/c Verlandson. The texts of the 
 two versions differ widely in almost every stanza. 
 
 The Chosen Knight. \Sir Oliif rode forth over hill and lea\ 16 
 Sir Swerkel. {There^s a dance in the hall of Sir Swerkel 
 
 the Childe] 19 
 
 Finn and the Damsel, or The Trial of Wits. [" What's 
 
 rifer tha?i leaves}'" Finn cried^ 23 
 
 Epigrams by Carolan : 
 
 1. On Friars. [Would' st thou on good terms with friars 
 live] 26 
 
 2. On a surly Butler, who had refused him admission to 
 
 the cellar. [O Derniod Flynri it grieveth me] ... 26 
 Lines. [Hmv deadly the blow I received] 27 
 
 The last four lines of this Poem had already served (but with a 
 widely different text) as the last four lines of the Ode from the 
 Gcelic, printed in Romanlic Ballads, 1826, pp. 142 — 143. 
 
 There is a copy of Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
1 88 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
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 [Ellen of Villenskov : 1913] 
 
 Ellen of Villenskov / and Other Ballads / By / 
 George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation 1913. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 22; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Ballads pp. 5 — 22. There are head-lines through- 
 out, each page being headed with the title of the 
 particular j5c?//rt'<y occupying it. Following p. 22 is 
 a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the following 
 imprint upon its recto : " London : / Printed for 
 Thomas J. Wise, Hanipstead, N. W. / Edition limited 
 to Thirty Copies^ The signatures are A (a half- 
 sheet of four leaves), with B (a full sheet of eight 
 leaves) inset within it. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8^ x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 lAGE 
 
 Ellen of Villenskov. [There lies a wold in Vester Haf] . . 5 
 Uranienborg. [ Thou who the strajid dost wander] .... 13 
 
 Previously printed, with an earlier and far inferior text, under the 
 title The Rtcins of Uranienborg, in The Foreign Qziarterly 
 Review, June, 1830, pp. 85-86. 
 

 K 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. i.;i 
 
 The Ready Answer. \Thc brother to his dear sister spahe\ . 19 
 Epigrams : 
 
 1. There s no living, 7ny boy, without plenty of gold ... 22 
 
 2. O think not yoii' II change 7vhat on high is designed . . 22 
 
 3. Load not thyself witJi gold, O mortal man, for k7um< . . 22 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reroreiico is attached, a]3pcaiecl for tlie first 
 lime ill this vohime. 
 
 The Manuscripts of the poems included in Ellen of Villenskov 
 and Other Ballads are in the Library of Mr. Clement K. Shorter. 
 
 There is a co\)y q^ Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British ^luseum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [The Songs of Ranild : 191 3] 
 
 The Songs of Ranild / By / George Borrow / 
 London : Printed for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 26 ; consisting of : 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Poems pp. 5 — 26, There are head-lines through- 
 out, each page being headed with the title of the 
 particular poem occupying it. Following {). 26 is a 
 leaf, with a notice regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the reverse, and with the following 
 imprint upon its recto : " London : / Printed for 
 Tlwiiias J. Wise, Havipstead, N. W. / Edition limited 
 to Thirty Copies." The signatures are A (six leaves), 
 and B (a full sheet of eight leaves), the one inset 
 within the other. 
 
192 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6| inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Co7iteuts. 
 
 PACiE 
 
 The Songs of Ranild : 
 
 Song the First. [ Up Ribers street the dance they ply] . . 5 
 
 Song the Second. \^To saddle his courser Ranild cried] . 10 
 
 Song the Third. [So wide around the tidings bound] . . 13 
 
 Child Stig and Child Findal. [Chi/d Stig and Cliild Findal 
 
 two brothers were they] 17 
 
 The Songs of Ranild wQX'i first written in 1S26, and were finally 
 prepared for press in 1854. I give herewith, facing p. 191, a fac- 
 simile, the exact size of the original, of the first page of the first 
 draft of Song the Third. 
 
 The complete MS. from which these four Ballads were printed is 
 in the Library of Mr. J. A. Spoor, of Chicago. 
 
 There is a. copy of The Songs of Ranild m. the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [Niels Ebbesen : 1913] 
 
 Niels Ebbesen / and / Germand Gladensvvayne / 
 
 Two Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 32 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1—2 ; Title-page 
 as above (with notice regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of the 
 Ballads pp. 5 — 32. There are head-lines through- 
 out, each page being headed with the title of the 
 particular Ballad occupying it. At the foot of p. 32 
 
NIELS EBBESEN 
 
 AND 
 
 GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE 
 
 TWO BALLADS 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDIT/ONES P RING I PES, ETC. 
 
 195 
 
 is the following imprint : " London : I Printed for 
 Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. j Edition limited 
 to Thirty Copies!' The signatures are A and B 
 (two sheets, each eight leaves), the one inset within 
 the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Niels Ebbesen. [^// his men the Count collects'] 5 
 
 Germand Gladenswayne. [Our Kitig and Quee?i sat o'er 
 
 the board'\ • . . . • 22 
 
 There is a copy of Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. 
 d. 38. 
 
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 [Child Maidelvold : 1913] 
 
 Child Maidelvold / and Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a notice regarding the American 
 copyright upon the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 
 o 2 
 
196 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 the Ballads pp. 5 — 27, There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title 
 of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the 
 reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : " London .•/ 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. j 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The signatures 
 are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet 
 of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), 
 each inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8-J x 61 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Child Maidelvold. \The fair Sidselll, of all maidens the flozverA^ 5 
 
 Another, l)Ut widely diflerent and altogether inferior, version of 
 this beautiful and pathetic ballad — one of Borrow's best — was 
 printed (under the title Skion Middel) in The Monthly Magazine, 
 November, 1823, p. 308; and again (under the amended titled/;' 
 Middel, and with a slightly revised text) in Romantic Ballads, 1826, 
 pp. 28 — 31. In these earlier versions the name of the heroine is 
 Swanelil in place of Sidselil, and that of the hero is Sir Middel 
 in place of Child MSidelvold. 
 
 Sir Peter. \_Slr Peter and Klrstin they sat by the board\ . . 1 1 
 Ingefred and Gudrune. \Ingefred and Gudriine they sate in 
 
 their l>07cier] 15 
 
 Sir R\ho\t. [Plbolt the son of a Cottnt was he] 20 
 
 As a further example of these Ballads I give Ingefred and 
 Gudrune in full. 
 
Mid H €\ frMi fl^i\i%^\^. 
 
 t^ {.Ml' U III Wn 
 
 It- H 
 
 5". 
 
 
 
 It- ^% in. Ill fitUll' 'U» ek4k Itrrlu. |Km 
 
 (|ivl Hl &w!i imam [rrv-^iWa'-n irijf^i 
 % m\ArA fyii-lri \<A^^^m W^\i u i/nk 
 
 
 ■»v ^M•■vnl lo^iV^\ly 'VKB/'WH?. U !/ni 
 
 1, fM. : I'l 
 
 1 
 
 I'^^H'Vrf'^^^^i m^l 
 
 Ml 
 
 "av^ I.^AtJAii ^Hh\nh 
 
 All 
 
 
 '^ 
 
EDITION ES PRINCIPES, ETC. 
 
 INGE FRED AND GUDRUNE* 
 
 Inge/red and Gudrune they sate in their bower., 
 Each bloomed a beauteous fragrant floiver — 
 So sweet it is in summer tide ! 
 
 A working the gold fair Ifigefred kept., 
 Still safe Gudrune, and bitterly wept. 
 
 " Dear sister Gudrune so fai?i Td knoiv 
 Why down thy cheek the salt tears flow?" 
 
 " Cause enough have I to be thus forlorn. 
 With a load of sorrow my heart is tvorn. 
 
 " Hear, Ingefred, hear what I say to thee, 
 Wilt thou to-night stand bride for me ? 
 
 " If bride for me thou wilt stand to-?iighf, 
 I Ul give thee my bridal clothes thee to requite. 
 
 " And more, much more to thee I^ II give. 
 All my bi-ide jeivels thou shall receive." 
 
 " O, I will not stand for bride in thy room, 
 Save I also obtain thy merry bridegroom." 
 
 " Betide me ivhatever the Lord ordain. 
 
 From me my bridegroom thou never shall gain." 
 
 hi silks so costly the bride they a?-rayed, 
 And unto the kirk the bride they conveyed. 
 
 In golden cloth weed the holy priest stands, 
 He joins of Gudrune and Samsing the hands. 
 
 O'er the downs and green grass meadows they sped. 
 Where the herdsman ivatched his herd as it fed. 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the original Manuscript of 
 Inge/red and Gudrune will be found facing page 200. 
 
 '99 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 "■ Of thy beauteous self, dear Damsel, take heed, 
 Ne'er enter the house of Sir Samsing, / rede. 
 
 " Sir Samsi?ig possesses two nightingales 
 IVho tell of the Ladies such wondrous tales. 
 
 " With their voices of hartnony they can declare 
 Whether maiden or none has fallen to his share.''' 
 
 The chariot they stopped in the green wood shade, 
 An exchange 'twixt them of their clothes they made. 
 
 They change of their dress whatever they please. 
 Their faces they cannot exchange with ease. 
 
 To Sir Samsing' s house the bride they conveyed. 
 Of the ruddy gold no spare was made. 
 
 On the bridal throne the bride they placed, 
 They skinked the mead for the bride to taste. 
 
 Then said from his place the court buffoon : 
 '' Methinks thou art Lngefred, not Gudrune." 
 
 From off her hand a gold ring she took. 
 Which she gave the buffoon -with entreating look. 
 
 Said he: '■'■I'm an oaf arid have drunk too hard. 
 To words of mine pay no regard." 
 
 'Tivas deep at night, and down fell the mist. 
 To her bed the yoimg bride they assist. 
 
 Sir Samsing spoke to his nightingales twain : 
 " Before my young bride sing ?iozv a strain. 
 
 " A songnozu si?tg which shall avouch 
 Whether I've a maiden or none in my couch." 
 
 " A maid's in the bed, that's certain and sure, 
 Gudrune is standing yet on the floor." 
 
mm cifrMOi \U tbV % u^!- Urn |V* . "^ 
 \ \pM kr 'V^^ti.i ifhhv i^X^ v^ j. W^ii^; 
 
 
 rt Itir Wi rimite im\k kW 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 203 
 
 '■'■ Proud Ingefred., straight from my couch retire ! 
 Gudrune come hither, or dread my ire ! 
 
 ^^ Now tell me, Gudrune, zvith ope7i heart. 
 What made thee from thy bed depart ? " 
 
 " My father, alas ! dwelt near the strafid. 
 When ivar and bloodshed filled the land. 
 
 " Full eight there were broke into my bower. 
 One only ravished my virgin flower.'''' 
 
 Upon her fair cheek he gave a kiss : 
 
 " My dearest, ?>iy dearest, all sorrow dismiss ; 
 
 " My swains they were that broke into thy bower, 
 ^Twas I that gathered thy virgin flower^ 
 
 Fair Ingefred gained, because bride she had been, 
 One of the King's knights of handsome mien. 
 
 There is a copy of Child Maidelvold and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [Ermeline : 19 1 3] 
 
 Ermeline / A Ballad / By / George Borrow / 
 London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 23 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1—2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4; and Text of 
 the Poems pp. 5 — 23. There are head-lines through- 
 out, each page being headed with the title of the 
 particular poem occupying it. Upon the reverse of 
 
204 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 p. 23 is the following imprint: '' London I Printed 
 for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / Edition 
 limited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures are A (a 
 half-sheet of four leaves), and B (a full sheet of eight 
 leaves), the one inset within the other. 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8^ x 6| inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ermeline. [ With lance upraised so liauglitily\ 5 
 
 The paper upon which the Manuscript of Ermeline is written is 
 water-marked with the date 1843. No other MS. is forthcoming. 
 
 The Cuckoo's Song in Merion. [Though it lias been my 
 
 fate to sec] 21 
 
 The fifth stanza of this Song was printed by Borrow in Wild Wates, 
 1862, vol. i, p. 153. The two versions of this stanza offer some 
 interesting variations of text ; I give them both : 
 1862 
 Full fair the gleisiad in t/ie flood, 
 
 Whicli sparkles ^neatJi the suinmer''s sun. 
 And fair the tlirush in green abode 
 
 Spreading his wings in sportive fun. 
 But fairer loot: if truth be spoke, 
 T/ie maids of County Merion. 
 
 1913 
 Ofair the salmon in the flood. 
 
 That over golden sands doth run ; 
 And fair the thrush in his abode, 
 
 Tliat spreads his wings in gladsome fun ; 
 More beauteous look, if truth be spoke. 
 The maids of county Merion. 
 There is a copy of Ermeline A Ballad in the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C 44- d. 38. 
 
THE GIANT OF BERN 
 AND ORM UNGERSWAYNE 
 
 A BALLAD 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 207 
 
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 [The Giant of Bern : J913] 
 
 The Giant of Bern / and Orm Ungerswayne / 
 A Ballad / By / George Borrow / London : / Printed 
 for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 15; consisting of Half- 
 title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as 
 above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 of the Ballad pp. 5 — 15. The head-line is The 
 Giant of Bern throughout, upon both sides of the 
 page. Upon the reverse of p. 15 is the following 
 imprint : " London : / Printed for Thomas f. Wise, 
 Hampstead, N. W. / Edition limited to Thirty 
 Copies^ There are no signatures, the pamphlet 
 being composed of a single sheet, folded to form 
 sixteen pages. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 7| X 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Giant of Bern and Orme Ungerswayne. [// was the 
 
 lofty jutt of Bern, O'er all the walls he grew] .... 5 
 
 Fifteen stanzas, descriptive of the incident of Orm's obtaining 
 his father's sword from the dead man's grave, were printed in 
 Targum, 1835, pp. 59-61, under the title Birting. A Fragment. 
 The text differs greatly in the two versions, that of the later (which. 
 
2o8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 though not printed until 1913, was written about 1854) is much the 
 superior. As an example I give the first two stanzas of each 
 version : 
 
 1835 
 
 // was late at evenhig tide, 
 
 Sinks the day-star in the wave, 
 
 When alone Orm Ungarswayne 
 
 Rode to seek his father'' s grave. 
 
 Late it was at evening hour. 
 When the steeds to streams are led ; 
 Let me noiv, said Or in the young. 
 Wake my father from the dead. 
 
 1913 
 
 // was so late at evening tide. 
 
 The sun had reached the zvave. 
 When Orm the youthful swain set out 
 
 To seek his father-'' s grave. 
 
 It was the hour when grooms do ride 
 
 The coursers to the rill. 
 That Orm set out resolved to wake 
 
 The dead man in the hill. 
 
 There is a copy of The Giant of Berti and Orm Ungerszvayne 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. 
 d. 38. 
 
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 [Little Engel : 191 3] 
 
 Little Engel / A Ballad / With a Series of/ Epigrams 
 from the Persian / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 27 ; consisting of : 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1—2 ; Title-page, 
 
LITTLE ENGEL 
 
 A BALLAD 
 
 WITH A SERIES OF 
 
 EPIGRAMS FROM THE PERSIAN 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
ED IT I ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 211 
 
 as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 of the Ballad and Epigrams pp. 5 — 27. There are 
 head-h'nes throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Poem occupying it — save 
 for pp. 23 — 27, which are headed Epigrams. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : 
 " London : / Printed for Thomas J, Wise, Hampstead, 
 N. IV. I Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The 
 signatures are A (six leaves), and B (a full sheet 
 of eight leaves), the one inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8-0 x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Little Engel. [// zvas the little Engel, he'\ 5 
 
 An Elegy. [ Where shall I rest ?ny hapless head] 21 
 
 Epigrams. From the Persian : 
 
 1. \^Hmr IV hat 07ice the pigmy clever] 23 
 
 2. \_The man who of his words is sparing] 23 
 
 3. [If thou woidd'st ridn 'scape, and blackest woe] .... 24 
 
 4. [^Sit doivn with your friends in delightful repose] . . 24 
 
 5. \The hungry hound upon the bone will pounce] .... 24 
 
 6. \_Great Aaroun is dead, and is Jiothing, the man] ... 25 
 
 7. \Though God provides our daily bread] 25 
 
 8. The King and his Followers. [If in the booths garden 
 
 the King eats a pear] 25 
 
 9. The Devout Man and the Tyrant. [If the half of a 
 
 loaf the devout man receives] 26 
 
 10. The Cat and the Beggar. [If a cat could the power of ■ 
 
 flyi?ig enjoy] 26 
 
 p 2 
 
212 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 11. The King and Taylor. [The taylor who travels in 
 
 far foreign lands] 26. 
 
 12. Gold Coin and Stamped Leather. [Of the children of 
 wisdom hozv tike is the face] 27 
 
 13. \_So much /ike a friend with your foe ever deal] . ... 27 
 The Manuscript of these Epigrams bears instructive evidence of 
 
 the immense amount of care and labour expended by Borrow upon 
 his metrical compositions. Reduced facsimiles of two of the 
 pages of this Manuscript are given herewith. It will be observed 
 that a full page and a half are occupied by the thirteenth Epigram, 
 at which Borrow made no fewer than seven attempts before he 
 succeeded in producing a version which satisfied him. The com- 
 pleted Epigram is as follows : — 
 
 So much like a friend with your foe ever deal. 
 That y oil never need dread the least scratch from his steel ; 
 But ne^er with your friend deal so much like a foe. 
 That yon ever must dread from his faulchion a blow. 
 
 The original Manuscript of Little Engel, written in 1829, is in 
 the library of Mr. Edmund Gosse. The Manuscript of 1854, 
 from which the ballad was printed, is in my own library. 
 
 There is a copy of Little Engel, A Ballad, &c., in the Library 
 of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [Alf the Freebooter : 191 3] 
 
 Alf the Freebooter / Little Danneved and / Swayne 
 Trost / and Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / 
 London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American cop)'- 
 right upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3—4 ; and 
 Text of the Ballads pp. 5—27. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 

 AhWA l\Ki,,,, lvAll^X^L^^H 
 
 
 W im^ ^)>pM^^m^ h Milk ,C 
 
 
 
 dv-V ...« 
 

 I, ' 
 
 
 ir 
 
 fjj^hi 'ii'".. 
 
 
 
 ^1lv\T VHv IHV ^\vvvv\ i'K'^ '"^^M V\'^ U\A^.Wv\v ivVlno 
 
 : 1^ \ 
 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPE S, ETC. 215 
 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint, " London:l 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hauipstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The signatures 
 are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B (a half-sheet 
 of 4 leaves), and C (a full sheet of 8 leaves), all inset 
 within each other. 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8^ x 6| inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Sir Alf the Freebooter. [Sir A If he is an Afheling.] . . 5 
 Little Danneved and Swayne Trost. [" O^ohat shall I 
 
 in Detimark do?"] 14 
 
 Sir Pall, Sir Bear, and Sir Liden. [Liden lie rode to the 
 
 Ting, and shelved] 20 
 
 Belardo's Wedding. [From the banks, in mornings beam] . 23 
 The Yew Tree. [O tree of yew, which here I spy] . ... 27 
 Two earlier versions of this Ode were printed by Borrow in Wild 
 Wales, vol. iii, pp. 203 and 247. The texts of all three versions 
 differ very considerably. 
 There is a copy of Alf the Freebooter and Other Ballads in 
 the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C 44. 
 d. 38. 
 
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 [King Diderik : 1913] 
 
 King Diderik / and the Fight between the / Lion 
 and Dragon / and Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
2i6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 27 ; consisting of : 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title- 
 page, as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3—4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 27. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint, 
 ''London: j Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, 
 N. W. I Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The 
 signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B (a 
 half-sheet of 4 leaves), and C (a full sheet of 8 
 leaves), all inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 King Diderik and the Lion's Fight with the Dragon. 
 
 [^From Bern rode forth King Diderik^ 5 
 
 There exists a single leaf of an early draft of another, entirely 
 different, version of this ballad. Upon the opposite page is a 
 facsimile, the exact size of the original, of this fragment. 
 
 Diderik. and Olger the Dane. [ With his eighteen brothers 
 
 Diderik starU\ i4 
 
 Olger the Dane and Burman. [Burman in the mountain 
 
 holds\ 21 
 
 The complete Manuscript of King Diderik, 6-=r., and Other 
 Ballads, as prepared for the Songs of Scandinavia of 1829, is 
 preserved in the British Museum. 
 
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 m\ m\ i h mm mimn w\ «\ |j?, hh Fii 
 
 Ww4i W v.!..-,- f\y uni liL \n m 
 
 ^^K\ 
 
 Yvr'''^i 
 
 >^K ;:4'U^ Vftt^ ^■'^4^il:-L^wfc'^i<ii:^ zv.^ 
 
 f-^vi jjiaiv M.4\ uvnv-- \-'-^y^^- tt- A!? >nWye> 'H> 
 
 A'lii^ Diderik— Early draft. 
 
 •rvu. 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 219 
 
 There is a copy of King Diderik and the Fight between the Lion 
 and Dragon, ^'c. in the Library of the British Museum. The 
 Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [The Nightingale : 19 13] 
 
 The Nightingale / The Valkyrie and Raven / and 
 Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 1913. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 27 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title- 
 page, as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 27. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular i5rt://«(^ occupying it. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : 
 " London : / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, 
 N. W. I Edition limited to Thirty Copies'' The 
 signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B (a 
 half-sheet of 4 leaves), and C (a full sheet of 8 leaves), 
 all inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrim.med 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8|- x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Nightingale, or The Transformed Damsel. [Iknoio 
 
 where stands a Castellaye^ 5 
 
220 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Valkyrie and Raven. [ Ye men ^Hearing bracelets] . 1 1 
 Previously printed in Once a Week, August znd, 1862, 
 pp. 152-156, where the Ballad was accompanied by a full-page 
 Illustration engraved upon wood. \Ste post, pp. 302-305.] 
 
 Erik Emun and Sir Plog. \_EarIy at morn the lark sang 
 
 g^^y] 21 
 
 The Elves. [Take heed, good people, of yourselves] .... 25 
 
 There are two Manuscripts of The Elves available. So far as the 
 body of the poem is concerned the te.xts of these are identical, the 
 fifth line alone differing materially in each. This line, as printed, 
 reads : 
 
 The lass he woo'd, her promise won. 
 
 In the earlier of the two MSS. it reads : 
 
 Inflamed with passion her he woo^d. 
 
 A cancelled reading of the same MS. runs : 
 
 Whom when he saw the peasant woo'd. 
 
 But the Ballad is furnished with a repeated refrain. This refrain 
 in the printed version reads : 
 
 Take heed, good people, of yourselves ; 
 
 And oh ! beware ye of the elves. 
 
 In the earlier MS. the refrain employed is : 
 
 ' Tis wonderful the Lord can brook 
 The insolence of the fairy folk ! 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the later MS. Mdll be found 
 facing the present page. 
 
 The entire poem should be compared with The Elf Bride, printed 
 in The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 21 — 22. 
 
 Feridun. [No face of a7i Angel could Feridtin claim] . . . 26 
 Epigrams : 
 
 1 . [A worthless thing is song, I troui] 27 
 
 2. [Though pedants have essayed to hammer] 27 
 
 3. [ When of youi-self you have cause to speak] .... 27 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
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 J^ . 
 
EDITIONES PRINCJPES, ETC. 
 
 2=3 
 
 There is a copy of The mghtingak, The Valkyrie and Raven, 
 and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum! 
 The Press-mark is C 44. d. t^%. 
 
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 [Grimmer and Kamper : 1913] 
 
 Grimmer and Kamper / The End of Sivard Snaren- 
 swayne / and Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 28; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 28. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At the 
 foot of p. 28 is the following imprint : " London : / 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N, W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies^ The signatures 
 are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B (a half-sheet of 
 4 leaves), and C (a full-sheet of 8 leaves), all inset 
 within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8-i x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Grimmer AND Kamper. [Grimmer walks upon the floor'] . 5 
 
 MiMMERiNG Tan. [The smallest mamms Mhmnering\ . . 11 
 The End of Sivard Snarenswayne. [ Young Sivard he his 
 
 step-sire sleiv\ i4 
 
 The two Manuscripts, belonging to the years 1829 and 1S54 respec- 
 tively, of this ballad exhibit very numerous differences of text. As 
 a brief, but sufficient, example I give the second stanza as it occurs 
 in each : 
 
 1829 
 
 // was Sivard Snaresivayne [sic] 
 
 To his mother's presence hied: 
 ' ' Say, shall I go from thee on foot, 
 
 Or, tell me, shall I ride?" 
 
 1854 
 It was Sivard Snarenswayne 
 
 To his mother's presence strode : 
 "Say, shall 1 ride from hence?"" he cried, 
 
 " Or wend on foot my road?'' 
 
 Sir Guncelin's Wedding. [// zvas the Count Sir Guncelin] 19 
 Epigrams : 
 
 Honesty. [No wonder honesty's a lasting article'] ... 27 
 A Politician. [Be served his God in such a fashion] . . 27 
 The Candle. [For foolish pastimes oft, full oft, they thee 
 
 ignite] ^7 
 
 Epigram on Himself. By Wessel [He ate, and drank, 
 and slip-shod went] -'^ 
 
 There is a copy of Grimmer and Kamper, The End of Sivard 
 Snarenswayne, and Other Ballads in the Library of the British 
 Museum. The Press-mark is C 44. d. 38. 
 

 
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EDITION ES PR I NCI PES, ETC. 227 
 
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 [The Fountain of Makibo : 1913] 
 
 The / Fountain of Maribo / and Other Ballads / 
 By / George Borrow / London : / Printed for 
 Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Frontis- 
 piece (with blank recto) pp. 3 — 4 ; Title-page (with 
 notice regarding the American copyright upon the 
 centre of the reverse) pp. 5 — 6 ; and Text of the 
 Ballads pp. 7 — 27. There are head-lines through- 
 out, each page being headed with the title of the 
 particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse 
 of p. 27 is the following imprint: ^''London: j Printed 
 for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / Edition 
 limited to Thirty Copies'' The signatures are A (a 
 quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four 
 leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), each 
 inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The Frontispiece is a reduced facsimile of the first page of 
 the original Manuscript of Ramund. 
 
 Q 2 
 
228 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 The Fountain of Maribo, Or The Queen and the 
 Algreve. [ The Algreve he his bugle wound'] .... 
 
 Of Tlic Fountain of Marilto there are two Manuscripts available, 
 one written in 1829 and the other in 1854. The text of these 
 differs appreciably, that of the second being as usual the superior. 
 Here are some stanzas from each ver.sion : 
 
 1829 
 
 The Algreve he his bugle wound, 
 
 The longest niglit. 
 The Queen in her bower heard the sound 
 
 Love ine doth thrall. 
 
 The Queen her little foot boy address'd : 
 
 The longest night. 
 "Go, come to me hither the Algreve request." 
 
 Love iiie doth thrall. 
 
 In came the Algrave, "fore the board stood he : 
 
 " What wilt thou my Queen that thou'st sent for me ?" 
 
 " If I survive when my lord is dead, 
 Thou shalt rule o'er my gold so red." 
 
 1854 
 
 The Algreve he his bugle wound 
 
 The long night all — 
 The Queen in bower heard the sound, 
 
 Vm passion's tlu-all. 
 
 The Queen her little page address'd. 
 
 The long night all — 
 " To come to me the Greve request," 
 
 /'/;/ passion's thrall. 
 
 He came, before the board stood he, 
 
 'J'he long night all — 
 " Wherefore, O Queen, hast sent for me ? 
 
 Pm passion's thrall, 
 
aonii/nili. 
 
 ii- iilir vx^A)Wci c\mu\i few ., 
 
 m'? h%\hhr ^mM I^^A*,'" 
 
 Ima W^k p jl^^ In I? W AuWvCt 
 
 'iTil (uvi 'b.i wa4 ;wa|_ wii A'AfrJ? tv'Jr^, 
 i?i- lir^ ^^'^ti/ii iW- m^^ 
 
EDIT ION ES PRINCIPES, ETC. 231 
 
 ■' As soon as e"er my lord is dead, 
 T/ie ion^ night all — 
 Thou shall rule o'er my gold so red/'- 
 7'/« passion's thrall. 
 
 i'.\(;k 
 Ramund. \Ramu7id thought he should a better man be\ . . 1 3 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the manuscript of Raiiimni 
 faces the present page. 
 
 Alf OF Odderskier. \_Alf he divells at Odderskier^ ... 22 
 
 There is a copy of The Fountain of Maribo and Other Ballads 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. 
 d. 38. 
 
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 [Queen Berngerd : 191 3] 
 
 Queen Berngerd / The Bard and the Dreams / 
 and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : 
 / Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 31 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Frontis- 
 piece (with blank recto) pp. 3 — 4 ; Title-page, as 
 above (with a note regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 5 — 6 ; and 
 Text of the Ballads pp. 7 — 31. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the 
 reverse of p. 31 is the following iinprint : " London: \ 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies. The signatures 
 are A and B (two sheets each eight leaves), the one 
 inset within the other. 
 
232 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure Si x 6f inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The Frontispiece consists of a reduced facsimile of the 
 original Manuscript, in Borrow's handwriting, of The Bard 
 and the Dreams. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 I'ACE 
 
 Queen Berngerd. \^Long ere the Sun the heaven arrayed] 7 
 Dame Martha's Fountain. [Dan/e Martha d^velt at 
 
 Karisegaard] 13 
 
 Previously printed (with some small dift'erences of text) in Tlie 
 Fo7-eign Quarterly Review, June 1830, p. 83. 
 
 The Bard and the Dreams. [O'er the sweet smelling 
 
 meads with his lyre in his ha fid] 16 
 
 King Oluf the Saint. [King Obif and his brother bold] . 23 
 Previously printed (with some slight dift'erences of text) in Tlie 
 Foreign Quarterly Review, June 1830, pp. 59-61. 
 
 To Scribblers. [Would it not be more dignified] .... 30 
 This delightful Squib, here first printed, was written by Borrow 
 upon the refusal by Lockhart to insert in Tlie Quarterly Review 
 Borrow's Essay suggested by Ford's Handbook for Travellers in 
 Spain, 1845, in the unmutilated and unamended form in which 
 the author had written it. — [See ante. No. 10.] 
 
 To A Conceited W'oman. [Be still, be still, and speak not 
 
 back again] 31 
 
 Note. — Each poem, to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the 
 Dreams, and Other Ballads in the Library of the British 
 Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 U W.j' A %, |l^w^*H iWi yV VM^ ii I Km- 
 
 KdI. Ill Hh]»j mnr\ tmixl'i'ii^'A W- 
 k !)i lml^\ nil wl. vtviv/K ^Wi 
 
FINNISH ARTS 
 
 OR 
 
 SIR THOR AND DAMSEL THURE 
 
 A BALLAD 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London .- 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
EDIT/ONES PR/XCIPES, ETC. 237 
 
 (48) 
 
 [Finnish Arts: 191 3] 
 
 Finnish Arts / Or / Sir Thor and Damsel Thure / 
 A Ballad / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 2"/ ; consisting of : 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Frontis- 
 piece (with blank recto), pp. 3-4; Title-page, as 
 above (with notice regarding the American cop)-- 
 right upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 5 — 6 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 7 — 27. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : 
 " London : / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Havip- 
 stead, A\ W. j Edition limited to Thirty Copies'' The 
 signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B 
 (a half-sheet of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of 
 eight leaves), each inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The Frontispiece is a reduced facsimile of the first page of 
 the original Manuscript of Finnish Arts, or Sir Thor and 
 Damsel TJiure. 
 
238 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Finnish Arts, Or, Sir Thor and Damsel Thure. S^Sir 
 
 Thor 7vas a knight of prowess tried ] 7 
 
 A reduced facsimile of the first page of the Manuscript of Finnish 
 Arts will be found facing the present page. 
 
 A New Song to an Old Tune. [ Who starves his wife'] . 22 
 Ode from Anacreon. \The earth to drin/z does not 
 
 disdain] 24 
 
 Lines from the Italian. ['■'■ Iiepe7it, O repent!'" said a 
 
 Friar one day] 25 
 
 A Drinking Song. \0 how my breast is gloiving] .... 26 
 
 There is a copy of Finnish Arts, Or Sir Thor and Damsel 
 Thure in the Library of the British Museum. The Press- 
 mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
 (49) 
 [Brown William : 1913] 
 
 Brown William / The Power of the Harp / and / 
 Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 1913. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 31 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with notice regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and 
 Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 31. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon 
 the reverse of p. 31 is the following imprint: 
 
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EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 243 
 
 ''London / Printed for Tliomas J. Wise, Hampstead, 
 N. IV. I Edition limited to TJiirty Copies!' The sig- 
 natures are A and B (two sheets, each eight leaves), 
 the one inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| x6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Brown William. [^Let no one in greatness too confident be\ 5 
 Previously printed in Once a Week, January a^th, 1862, pp. 37-38. 
 
 The Power of the Harp. [A> Peter would forth from 
 
 the castle ride'\ 12 
 
 A reduced facsimile of one of the pages of the Manuscript of T/ie 
 Power of The Harp will be found facing herewith. 
 
 The Unfortunate Marriage. \_Hildebrand gave his sister 
 
 away] • . . 18 
 
 The Wrestling-Match. [As one day I wandered lonely, in 
 
 extreme distress of mind\ . 25 
 
 The Warrior. From the Arabic. [Thou lov'st to look 
 
 on tnyrtles green] 31 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Brozvn William, The Poiver of the Harp, 
 and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. 
 The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38, 
 
244 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 (50) 
 
 [The Song of Deirdra : 191 3] 
 
 The Song of Deirdra / King Byrge and his 
 Brothers / and / Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circula- 
 tion / 1913. 
 
 Collation : — Square demy octavo, pp. 28 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 28. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At 
 the foot of p. 28 is the following imprint : " London : j 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The signatures are 
 A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of 
 four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), all 
 inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure S-J- X 6f inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Co?ifents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Song of Deirdra. [Farewell, grey Albyn, much loved 
 
 land] 5 
 
 The Diver. [ Where is the man who will dive for his king] 8. 
 
 Previously printed in The New Monthly Magazine, vol. vii., 1823, 
 
 pp. 540-542. 
 
THE SONG OF DEIRDRA 
 
 KING BYRGE AND HIS BROTHERS 
 
 AND 
 
 OTHER BALLADS 
 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 247 
 
 PAGE 
 
 King Byrge and his Brothers. [Dame Ingehorg three 
 
 brave brothers could boast\ 18 
 
 Turkish Hymn to Mahomet. \0 Envoy of Allah, to thee 
 
 be salaam] 26 
 
 J\lo/e. — Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his 
 Brothers, and Other Ballads in the Library of the British 
 Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
 (51) 
 [SiGNELIL : 19 I 3] 
 
 Signelil / A Tale from the Cornish / and Other 
 Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : / Printed 
 for Private Circulation / 19 13. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 28; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title- 
 page (with notice regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 28. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At 
 the foot of p. 28 is the following imprint : " London : j 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. IV. j 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The signatures 
 are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet 
 of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), 
 all inset within each other. 
 
248 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 Tlie leaves measure 8| x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 SiGNELiL. \_The Lady her handmaid to questioning took'] . . 5 
 A Tale from the Cornish. \_In Lavan's parish once of 
 
 yore] 8 
 
 Previously printed, with some trifling inaccuracies, in Knapp's Life, 
 W7-itings, and Correspondence of George Borrow, 1899, vol. ii, 
 PP- 91—95- 
 
 Sir Verner and Dame Ingeborg. [In Linholm's house 
 
 The sivains they were drinking and making carouse] . . 19 
 
 The Heddeby Spectre. \At evening fall L chanced to ride] 22 
 An earlier, and utterly different, version of this ballad was printed 
 (under the tentative title The Heddybee-Spectre) in Romantic Ballads, 
 1826, pp. 37 — 39. Borrow afterwards described this earlier version 
 as "a paraphrase." 
 
 From Goudeli. [ Yestere'en when the bat, and the owl, and 
 
 his mate] 25 
 
 Peasant Songs of Spain : 
 
 1 . [ When Jesu our Redee>fier] 27 
 
 2. \_The?-e stands a stotie, a rounded stone] 28 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Signelil, a Tale from the Cornish, a fid Other 
 Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press- 
 mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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EDIT/ONES PRINCIPE S, ETC. 251 
 
 (52) 
 
 [Young Swaigder : 191 3] 
 
 Young Swaigder / or / The Force of Runes / and 
 Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 1913. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a notice regarding the American 
 copyright upon the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text of 
 the Ballads pp. 5 — 27. There are head-lines 
 throughout, each page being headed with the title 
 of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the 
 reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : ''London :\ 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures 
 are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet 
 of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), 
 each inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| x 6\ inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Young Swaigder, Or The Force of Runes. [// was the 
 
 young Swaigder^ 5 
 
 The Hail Storm. \^As in Horufiga Haven'] 14 
 
 Previously printed in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 136-138. 
 Again printed in Targum, 1835, pp. 42-43. 
 
252 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 In each instance the text varied very considerably. The present 
 version was written about 1 854, and represents the text as Borrow 
 finally left it. I quote the first stanza of each version. It will 
 be seen that the revision was progressive. 
 
 1826 
 
 When from our ships zve bounded, 
 I heard, with fear astounded. 
 The storm of Thorgerd's waking ; 
 With flinty masses blended. 
 Gigantic hail descetided. 
 And thick and fiercely rattled 
 Against as there e»tbatfled. 
 
 1835 
 For victory as we bounded, 
 I heard, with fear astoimded. 
 The storm, of Thorgerd's waking, 
 From Northern vapours breaking. 
 Sent by the fend in anger. 
 With din and stunning clangour. 
 To crush our might intended. 
 Gigantic hail descended. 
 
 1854 
 
 As in Horunga haven 
 We fed the crow and raven, 
 I heard the tempest breaking. 
 Of demon Thorgerd's waking ; 
 Sent by the fiend in anger. 
 With din and stunning clangor. 
 To crush our might intended. 
 Gigantic hail descended. 
 
 Another translation of the same Ballad, extending to 84 lines, was 
 printed in Once a Week, 1863, vol. viii, p. 686, under the title The 
 Hail-Storm; Or, The Death of Bui. 
 
 RoSMER Mereman. \_Iti Denmark otice a lady dwelt] ... 16 
 This ballad should be read in conjunction with Rosmer, printed 
 in The Mermaid's P7-ophecy, and other Songs relating to Queen 
 Dagmar, 19 13, pp. 25-30. 
 
 PAGE 
 
EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 253 
 
 I'AGE 
 
 The Wicked Stepmother. No. II. \Sir Peter o'er to the 
 
 island strayed — ] 25 
 
 This ballad should be compared with The Wicked Stepmother, 
 printed in The Dalby Bear and Other Baltads, 1913, pp. 14-20. 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Young Sicaigder or The Force of Runes 
 and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum 
 The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
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 [Emelian the Fool: 1913] 
 
 Emelian the Fool / A Tale / Translated from the 
 Russian / By / George Borrow / London : / Printed 
 for Private Circulation / 1913. 
 
 Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 37 ; consisting of: Half- 
 title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, as 
 above (with blank reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; Introduction 
 pp. 5 — 7 ; and Text of the Tale pp. 8 — 37. The 
 reverse of p. 37 is blank. The head-line is Emelian 
 the Fool throughout, upon both sides of the page. 
 The pamphlet is concluded by a leaf, with blank 
 reverse, carrying the following imprint upon its 
 recto : " London : / Printed for Thomas f. Wise, 
 Hampstead, N. W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies'.' 
 The signatures are A (a half-sheet of 4 leaves),, 
 plus B and C (2 sheets, each 8 leaves), inset 
 within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 
254 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front 
 The leaves measure 7i X 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Enielian the Fool first appeared in Once a Week, vol. vi. 
 March Zth, 1862, pp. 289-294, where it formed the first of a 
 series of three Russian Poptilar Tales, in Prose, translated by 
 George Borrow. 
 
 The Tale was also included in The Avon Booklet, vol. ii, 1904, 
 pp. 175-197- 
 
 There is a copy of Emelian the Fool in the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. e. 45 (i). 
 
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 [The Story of Tim: 191 3] 
 
 The Story of Tim / Translated from the Russian / 
 By / George Borrow / London : / Printed for 
 Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 31; consisting of: Half- 
 title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page as 
 above (with blank reverse) pp. 3—4 ; Introduction 
 p. 5 ; and Text of the Story pp. 6 — 31. The head- 
 line is The Story of Tim throughout, upon both 
 sides of the page. Upon the reverse of p. 31 is the 
 following imprint : ^^ London : / Printed for Thomas 
 f. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / Edition limited to Thirty 
 Copies'' The signatures are A and B (two sheets, 
 each eight leaves), the one inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 
THE STORY OF TIM 
 
 Trattslated from the Russian 
 BY 
 
 GEORGE BORROW 
 
 London : 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 
 
 1913 
 
EDITIONES P RING I PES, ETC. 
 
 257 
 
 edges, and with tlie title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 7^x5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The Story of Tim first appeared in Once a Week, vol. vii, 
 October \th, 1862, pp. 403 — 406, where it formed the third of a 
 series of Russian Popular Tales, in Prose, translated by George 
 Borrow. 
 
 The Sto/ywixs also included in T/ie Avon Booklet, vol. ii, 1904, 
 pp. 211-229. 
 
 There is a copy of The Story of Tim in tlie Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. e. 45 (2). 
 
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 [MoLLiE Charane: 1 91 3] 
 
 Mollie Charane / and Other Ballads / By / George 
 Borrow / London : / Printed for Private Circula- 
 tion / 19 1 3. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 28; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with notice regarding the American copy- 
 right upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and 
 Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 28. There are head- 
 lines throughout, each page being headed with the 
 title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At the 
 foot of p. 28 is the following imprint: ''London: / 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies" The signatures 
 are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half- 
 sheet of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight 
 leaves), each inset within the other. 
 
 s 
 
258 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure %\ x 6§ inches. 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 MoLLiE Charane. [6>, Mollie Charane, where got you your 
 
 gold?] 5 
 
 Previously printed in Once a Week, vol. vi, 1862, pp. 38 — 39. 
 The Danes of Yore. \Well we hiow fro7n sagd\ . ... 8 
 A Survey of Death. \My blood is freezing, my senses reet\ 11 
 Another version of this poem was printed in The Monthly Magazine, 
 vol. Ivi, 1S23, p. 245 ; and reprinted (with some small textual 
 variations) m Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 169—170. As the 
 poem is a short one, and as the two versions afford a happy ex- 
 ample of the drastic changes Borrow introduced into his text when 
 revising his Ballads, I give them both in full : 
 
 1823 
 
 Perhaps ^tis folly, but still I feel 
 
 My heart-strings quiver, my senses reel. 
 
 Thinking how like a fast stream we range. 
 
 Nearer and nearer to lifers dread change. 
 
 When soul and spirit filter away. 
 
 And leave nothing better than senseless clay. 
 
 Yield, beatify, yield, for the grave does gape. 
 And, horribly altered, reflects thy shape ; 
 For, oh ! think not those childish charms 
 Will rest unrifled in his cold arms ; 
 And think not there, that the rose of love 
 Will bloom on thy features as here above. 
 
 Let him who roams at Vanity Fair 
 In robes that rival the tulip's glare. 
 Think on the chaplet of leaves which round 
 His fading forehead will soon be bound, 
 And on each dirge the priests will say 
 When his cold corse is borne away. 
 

 \1 V 
 
 T/te Danes of Yore. 
 
 S 2 
 
EDITION ES PRINCIPES, ETC. 261 
 
 Let him who seekelhfor wealthy imcheck'd 
 By fear of labour, let him reflect 
 That yonder gold will brightly shine 
 When he has perish' d, with all his line ; 
 Tho' man may rave, and vainly boast. 
 We are but ashes when at the most. 
 
 1913 
 My blood is freezing, my senses reel. 
 So horror stricken at heaj-t I feel ; 
 
 Thinking how like a fast stream we range 
 Nearer and nearer to that dread change. 
 
 When the body becomes so stark and cold. 
 And man doth crumble away to vioidd. 
 
 Boast not, proud maid, for the grave doth gape, 
 And strangely altered reflects thy shape ; 
 No dainty charms it doth disclose. 
 Death will ravish thy beauty's rose ; 
 And all the rest will leave to thee 
 When dug thy chilly grave shall be. 
 
 O, ye who are tripping the floor so light, 
 In delicate robes as the lily white. 
 Think of the fading funeral wreath, 
 The dying struggle, the sweat of death — 
 Think on the dismal death array. 
 When the pallid corse is consigtied to clay ! 
 
 O, ye who in quest af riches roavt, 
 Reflect that ashes ye must become ; 
 And the wealth ye win will brightly shine 
 When burried are ye and all your line ; 
 For your many chests of much loved gold 
 You'll nothing obtain but a little mould. 
 
 Uesiderabilia Vit/E. \_Give me the haunch of a buck to eat] 
 Previously printed, with a slightly diFferent text, and arranged in 
 six lines instead of in three four-line stanzas, in Lavengro, 1851, 
 vol. i, p. 306. 
 
 Saint Jacob. [Saitit Jacob he takes our blest Lord by the 
 hand] 
 
262 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Renegade. \^Now pay ye the heed that is fitting] . . 19 
 Previously printed, with some small differences of text, in T/ie 
 Talisman, 1835, pp. 13—14. 
 
 An Impromptu. [And darest thou thyseif compare] . ... 21 
 
 A Hymn. \0 Jesus, Thou Fountain of solace and gladness] 23 
 The Transformed Damsel. [My father up of the country 
 
 rode] 25 
 
 This Ballad should be compared with The Cruel Slep-davie, printed 
 in The Serpent Knight and Other Ballads, 19 13, pp. 30 — 33. Also 
 with The Tra^isformed Damsel, printed in The Return of the Dead 
 and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 13 — 14. The actions described in 
 the earlier stanzas follow closely those of the opening stanzas of 
 The Cruel Step-dame ; whilst the incident of the lover cutting a 
 piece of flesh from his own breast to serve as bait to attract his 
 mistress, who, in the form of a bird, is perched upon a branch of 
 the tree above him, is common to both the Transformed Damsel 
 ballads. 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Afollie Charane and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
 (56) 
 
 [Grimhild's Vengeance: 1913] 
 
 Grimhild's Vengeance / Three Ballads / By / 
 George Borrow / Edited / With an Introduction / 
 By / Edmund Gosse, C. B. / London : / Printed for 
 Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 40; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 
W- , -ihl >! -Ail . iir.; 
 
 li ^, 
 
 '-V^' 
 
 'K '^.V 
 
 t\^^ 
 
 
 
 
 rlisi^MW\iA4. 
 
 
 
 Hrn 
 
 r:t-;,„;,,/^c rx.. 
 
EDIT/ONES PR INC /PES, ETC. 265 
 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 Introduction pp. 5 — 14 ; and text of the three 
 Ballads pp. 15 — 40. The head-line is GrinihiUVs 
 Vengeance throughout, upon both sides of the page. 
 At the foot of p. 40 is the following imprint: 
 " London : / Printed for Thomas J. Wise., Hanipstead, 
 N.W. I Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The 
 signatures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), and B 
 and C (two sheets, each eight leaves), each inset 
 within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6^ inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contetits. 
 
 PAf.E 
 
 Grimhild's Vengeance. Song the First. [// zvas the 
 
 proud Dame Grimhild Prepares the mead and beet-] . . 15 
 
 A reduced facsimile of page 2 of the 1854 Manuscript of this Song 
 faces the present page. 
 
 Grimhild's Venge.^nxe. Song the Second. [// 7C'as the 
 
 proud Dame Grimhild The wifie with spices bknds'\ . . 24 
 
 Grimhild's Vengeance. Song the Third. [O, where 
 
 zvill ye find kempions So hold afid strong of hand^ ... 33 
 
 The Introduction furnished by Mr. Edmund Gosse to 
 Grimhild's Vengeance is undoubtedly by far the most illuminating 
 and important contribution yet made to the critical study of 
 Borrow's Ballads, a study which has hitherto been both meagre 
 and inadequate. Not only does Mr. Gosse handle the three 
 Songs particularly before him, and make clear the relationship they 
 bear to each other, but he deals with the whole subject of the 
 
266 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 origin of Borrow's Scandinavian Ballads, and traces fully and 
 precisely the immediate source from which their author derived 
 them. One of Borrow's most vivid records Mr. Gosse calls into 
 question, and proves indisputably that it must henceforth be 
 regarded, if not as a fiction, at least as one more result of 
 Borrow's inveterate habit of " drawing the long bow," — to wit the 
 passages in Lavengro wherein Borrow recounts his acquisition of 
 the " strange and uncouth-looking volume " at the price of a kiss 
 from the yeoman's wife, and the purpose which that volume 
 served him. 
 
 Of the first and second of the three Ballads included in 
 Grimhild's Vengeance two Manuscripts are available. The first of 
 these was written in 1829, and was intended to find a place in the 
 Songs of Scandinavia advertised at the close of that year. The 
 second Manuscript was written in 1854, and was prepared for the 
 projected volumes of Kc^mpe Viser of that date. Of the third 
 Ballad there exists only a single Manuscript, namely that produced 
 in 1829. Apparently in 1854 Borrow had relinquished all hope 
 'Of publishing the Kcempe Viser before he had commenced work 
 upon the third Ballad. In the present volume the first two So7igs 
 were printed from the Manuscripts of 1854; the third Song 
 from the Manuscript of 1829. 
 
 There is a copy of Grimhild's Vengeance in the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
 (57) 
 
 [Letters to Ann Borrow: 191 3] 
 
 Letters / To his Mother / Ann Borrow / and Other 
 Correspondents / By / George Borrow / London : / 
 Printed for Private Circulation / 191 3. 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 267 
 
 Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 38 ; consisting of Half-title 
 (with blank reverse) pp. 1 — 2 ; Title-page, as above 
 (with a notice regarding the American copyright 
 upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; and Text 
 of the Letters pp. 5 — 38. The head-line is Letters to 
 his Mother throughout, upon both sides of the page. 
 Following p. 38 is a leaf, with blank recto, and with 
 the following imprint upon the reverse : ''London : j 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies." The signatures 
 are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), plus B and C 
 (two sheets, each eight leaves), each inset within the 
 other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 7^^ X 5 inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 The series of letters contained in this volume were reprinted in 
 George Borrow and his Circle. By Clement King Shorter, 8vo, 
 19 13. The whole of the holographs are in Mr. Shorter's 
 possession. 
 
 There is a copy of Letters to his Mother, Ann Borrow, in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. e. 46. 
 
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 [The Brother Avenged: 191 3] 
 
 The Brother Avenged / and / Other Ballads / By / 
 George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation / 19 13. 
 
268 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 32 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 32. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At 
 the foot of p. 32 is the following imprint : " London : j 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Havipstead, N. W. j 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures 
 are A and B (two sheets, each eight leaves), the one 
 inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| X 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Brother Avenged. [I stood before my master's boarcP^ 5 
 
 Previously printed (with some textual variations) in The Foreign 
 Quarterly Review, vol. \'\, June 1 830, pp. 61-62. 
 
 The Eyes.* [To kiss a pair of red lips small '] 9 
 
 Harmodius and Aristogiton. [ With the leaves of the 
 
 myrtle I '' II cover my brand^ 12 
 
 My dainty Dame. \My dainty Dame, my heart's delight ] 14 
 Grasach Abo or The Cause of Grace. [O, Balllle Na 
 
 Cortle I thy turrets are tall'\ 16 
 
 Dacmar. [Sick in Blbe Vagmars lying] 19 
 
 * The Manuscript of this poem is in the possession of Mr. J. A. Spoor, of 
 Chicago, to whose courtesy I was indebted for the loan of it when editing the 
 present pamphlet. 
 
f(\^um \m 
 
 
 
 %:hM¥^ tin 4-4 
 
 Wk\ w ^^^j^i a Tki ,vW^ v.tt^h luwk %*rt, 
 I ;|iuu_i k<^ uitU : ih-im. ■mIjh 'in k^ *iu\v 
 
 wtt^'*", * .:7 17 H"^ -w 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 
 
 371 
 
 lAGE 
 
 The Elf Bride. {There ivas a youthful swain one dav^ . 21 
 These stanzas should be compared with The Elves, printed in The 
 Nightingale, The Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads, 191 3, 
 pp. 25-26. 
 
 The Treasure Digger. \0, ivould that with last and shoe 
 
 I had stayd'\ 23 
 
 The Fisher. \The fisherman saddleth his good ivinged 
 
 horse'] 25 
 
 The Cuckoo. \Abidi)ig an appointtnent made] 29 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads 
 in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 
 
 44- d. 38. 
 
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 [The Gold Horns: 1913] 
 
 The Gold Horns / Translated by / George Borrow / 
 from the Danish of/ Adam Gottlob Oehlenschlager/ 
 Edited / with an Introduction by / Edmund Gosse, 
 C.B. / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 
 1913- 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 25 ; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 Introduction pp. 5 — 9 ; and Text of TJie Gold Horns, 
 the Danish and English texts facing each other 
 upon opposite pages, pp. 10—25. The reverse of 
 p. 25 is blank. There are head-lines throughout, 
 
272 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 each recto being headed The Gold Horns, and each 
 verso GuldJiornene. The book is completed by a leaf, 
 with blank reverse, and with the following imprint 
 upon its recto: ''London: \ Printed for Thomas J. 
 Wise, Hampstead, N. W. j Edition limited to Thirty 
 Copies." The signatures are A (a half-sheet of four 
 leaves), B (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), and C (a 
 full sheet of eight leaves), each inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6f inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Although the poem was not printed until 1913, it is quite 
 evident that the translation was made by Borrow in or about the 
 year 1826. The paper upon which the Manuscript is written is 
 watermarked with the date 1824, whilst the handwriting coincides 
 with that of several of the pieces included in the Romantic 
 Ballads of 1826. "There can be Httle doubt," writes Mr. 
 Gosse, " that Borrow intended The Gold Horns for that 
 volume, and rejected it at last. He was conscious, perhaps, that 
 his hand had lacked the skill needful to reproduce a lyric the 
 melody of which would have taxed the powers of Coleridge or of 
 Shelley." 
 
 " The Gold Horns marks one of the most important stages in the 
 history of Scandinavian literature. It is the earliest, and the freshest, 
 specimen of the Romantic Revival in its definite form. In this way, 
 it takes in Danish poetry a place analogous to that taken by The 
 Ancietit Mariner in English poetry. . . . 
 
 " Oehlenschlager has explained what it was that suggested to him 
 the leading idea of his poem. Two antique horns of gold, discovered 
 some time before in the bogs of Slesvig, had been recently stolen from 
 the national collection at Rosenborg, and the thieves had melted 
 
EDIT/ONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 273 
 
 down the inestimable treasures. Oehlenschlager treats these horns as 
 the reward for genuine antiquarian enthusiasm, shown in a sincere and 
 tender passion for the ancient relics of Scandinavian history. From 
 a generation unworthy to appreciate them, the Horns had been with- 
 drawn, to be mysteriously restored at the due romantic hour." — 
 \From the Introduction by Edmund Gosse^ 
 
 There is a copy of The Gold Horns in the Library of the 
 British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. d. 19. 
 
 (60) 
 
 [ToRD OF Hafsborough : 1914] 
 
 Tord of Hafsborough / and Other Ballads / By / 
 George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation / 1914. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 32; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 32. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At 
 the foot of p. 32 is the following imprint : " London : / 
 Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N. W. / 
 Edition limited to Thirty Copies!' The signatures 
 are A and B (two sheets, each eight leaves), the one 
 inset within the other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8i x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
274 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Coftfenfs. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ToRD OF Hafsborough. [// was Tord of Ifafsborotig/i] . 5 
 From the Arabic. [C thou who fain would' st wisdom gai/i] 10 
 Thorvald. \_Swayne Tveskieg did a man possess^ .... 11 
 
 Previously printed in The Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. vi, 
 1830, p. 74. 
 
 Peter Colbiornsen. \^Fore Fredereksteen King Carl he 
 
 lay] 16 
 
 Previously printed in The Foreign Quarterly Review, vol. vi, 
 1830, pp. 84-85. 
 
 Kragelill. \^Tivas 7ioised about, ^hvas noised about] ... 21 
 
 Allegast. \_The Count such a store of gold had got] ... 25 
 Epigrams : 
 
 1. \^Assume a friend's face whefi a foeman you spy] . ... 30 
 
 2. \The lion in woods finds prey of 7ioble kind] 30 
 
 3. {Though God provides our daily bread] 30 
 
 4. \_To trust a fnan I never feel inclined] 31 
 
 5. [A hunter luho was always seeking game] 31 
 
 6 . [ The plans of men of shrewdest wit] 31 
 
 7. \^]Vell was it said, long years ago] 31 
 
 8. [JVho roams the world by many wants beset] 32 
 
 It is probable that the vifhole of these eight Epigrams were derived 
 by Borrow from Persian sources. 
 
 On a Young Man with Red Hair. [He is a lad of sober 
 
 inind] 32 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of Tord of Hafsborough and Other Ballads in the 
 Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
EDITIONES P RING f PES, ETC. 2 75 
 
 (6l) 
 
 [The Expedition to Birting's Land: 1914] 
 
 The Expedition to / Birting's Land / and Other 
 Ballads / By / George Borrow / London ; / Printed 
 for Private Circuhition / 1914. 
 
 Collation: — Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: 
 Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. i — 2 ; Title-page, 
 as above (with a note regarding the American 
 copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3 — 4 ; 
 and Text of the Ballads pp. 5 — 27. There are 
 head-lines throughout, each page being headed with 
 the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. 
 Upon the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint : 
 " London : / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hanipstead, 
 N. W. I Edition limited to TJiirty Copies!' The signa- 
 tures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), B (a quarter- 
 sheet of two leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight 
 leaves), inset within each other. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed 
 edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 The leaves measure 8| x 6| inches. 
 
 Thirty Copies only were printed. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 The Expedition to Birting's Land. YThe King he o'er 
 
 the castle rules] 
 
 Of The Expedition to Birting's Land no less than three Manuscripts 
 are extant. The first was composed in 1826, and was originally 
 destined for inclusion in the Romantic Ballads of that date. It is 
 
 T 2 
 
276 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 numbered to come between The Totiriiament zxvA Vidrik Verlafidson. 
 The second was written in 1829, and was intended to find a place 
 in The Songs of Scandinavia. The third was prepared in 1854, 
 with a view to its appearance in the Katnpe Viser. In the two 
 earlier versions the Ballad bears the tentative title The Expedilioi 
 of King Diderik''s Warriors to Birting's Land. The texts of all 
 three differ very considerably, the final version being that from 
 which the Ballad was here printed. 
 
 The Singing Mariner. \^W ho will ever have agav{\ . . . 16 
 Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, vol. Ivi, 1823, 
 P- 335- 
 
 There exists an early Manuscript of this charming lyric, differing 
 entirely from the text as printed. This early version is written in 
 couplets, instead of in four-line stanzas. Here is the first stanza, 
 followed by the equivalent couplet from the MS. : 
 
 Printed text. 
 Who will ever have again, 
 On the land or on the main, 
 Such a chance as happened to 
 Count Arnaldos long ago. 
 
 MS. 
 
 Who had ier such an adventure the ocean^s waves upon. 
 As had the Count Arnaldos the mornitig of St. JoJut, 
 
 Upon the opposite page I give a facsimile of this early Manuscript, 
 the exact size of the original. The tiny waif affords a delightful 
 specimen of Borrow's extremely beautiful and graceful minute 
 handwriting, of which one or two other examples exist. The paper 
 upon which the lines are written is evidently a leaf torn from a 
 small note-book. 
 
 Youth's Song in Spring. \^0, scarcely is Spring a time of 
 
 pure bliss^^ , 18 
 
 The Nightingale. [/// midnight's calm hour the Nightin- 
 gale sings^ 19 
 
 Previously printed in The Monthly Magazine, vol. Ivi, 1823, 
 p. 526. 
 
 Lines. \Say from what mine took Love the yellow gold^ . . 20 
 
(llxjiMftWsi^fHamw. 
 
 
 NKi ^!^*™3i'\A>. ■>u';),i\ ;' aw.i 5v'am>;, ^(^iH» \\\m, 
 
EDIT/ONES P RING /PES, ETC. 279 
 
 •AGE 
 
 Morning Song. [^From Eastern quarters now] . . . 
 
 Previously printed in T/ie Foreign Qnar/erly Review, vol. vi, 
 1S30, p. 65. 
 
 P'rom THE French. {This "world by fools is occupied] . . 22 
 The Morning Walk. [To the beech grove zvith so sweet an 
 
 «'>] 23 
 
 Previously printed in The Foreign Qnarlerly Review, vol. vi, 
 1830, pp. 80-81. 
 
 Note. — Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for 
 the first time in this volume. 
 
 There is a copy of The Expedition to Birting's Land and 
 Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The 
 Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38. 
 
PART II. 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL 
 LITERATURE, etc. 
 
PART IL 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL 
 LITERATURE, Etc. 
 
 (I) 
 The New Monthly Magazine, Vol. vii, 1823. 
 Pp- 540—542. 
 The Diver, a Ballad Translated from the 
 Ger>l\n. [ Where is the man who will dive foi' 
 his King ?'\ 
 
 Reprinted in The Song of Deirdra and Other 
 Ballads, 191 3, pp. 8 — 17. 
 
 (2) 
 
 The Monthly Magazine, Vo\. Ivi, 1823. 
 
 P. 244. 
 
 Ode to a Mountain Torrent. \_How lovely 
 
 thou art in thy tresses offoani\ 
 
 Reprinted, with the text substantially revised, in 
 Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 164 — 166. 
 Again reprinted in Targum, 1835, pp. 45 — 46. 
 
 The majority of Borrow's contributions to The Alonthly Mas;azine 
 appeared under the signature ' George Olaus Borrow. ' Dr. Knapp 
 has recorded that he found in the Corporation Library at Norwich 
 
284 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 a book on ancient Danish Literature, by Olaus Wormius, carrying 
 several marginal notes in Sorrow's handwriting. The suggestion 
 that it was from this book that Borrow derived the pseudonymous 
 second christian name which he employed in- The Monthly Magazine 
 is not an unreasonable one. 
 
 P. 245. 
 
 Death. {^Perhaps 'tis folly, but still I feel'] 
 
 Reprinted (under the amended title Thoughts on 
 Death, and with some small textual variations) in 
 Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 169 — 170. 
 
 Another version of the same poem was printed (under the title 
 A Survey of Death, the first line reading My blood is freezing, 
 my senses reel) in Mollie Charane and Other Ballads, 191 3, 
 pp. 11-12. 
 
 P. 246. 
 
 Mountain Song. \That pathway before ye, so 
 narrotv and gray] 
 
 Pp. 306—309. 
 Danish Poetry and Ballad Writing. A Prose 
 Essay, including, inter alia, the following 
 Ballad : 
 Skion Middel. \_The maiden was lacing so tight- 
 ly her vest] 
 
 Reprinted, under the amended title Sir Middel, the 
 first line reading " So tightly zaas Swatielil lacing 
 her vest,'' in Rofnantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 28 — 30. 
 
 Another, but widely different, version of this Ballad is printed in 
 Child Maidelvold and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 5-10. In this 
 latter version the name of the heroine is Sidselil in place of 
 Swanelil, and that of the hero is Child Maidelvold in place of 
 Sir Middel. 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 285 
 
 Lenora. {^IVheii 7)iornings giea^n ivas on the 
 hill'\ 
 
 P. 437- 
 Chloe. \0h ! ive have a sister on earthly 
 dominions'\ 
 
 Reprinted in Targian, 1835, pp. 47 — 48. 
 
 ^^^len gathering Chloe into the pages of Targiim Borrow very 
 considerably revised the text. Here is the concluding stanza of 
 each of the two versions : — 
 
 1823 
 Btct God shook his sceptre, and thundered appalliug, 
 
 While winds swept the branches tuith turbulent sigh ; 
 Theti trembled the host, but they heeded his calling. 
 Ana bore the sweet maiden, yet praying, on high. 
 ''Ah, we had a sister on earthly dominions !^^ 
 All sung, as thro' heaven they joyously trod, 
 And bore, with flushed faces, and fluttering pinions, 
 The yet-praying maid to the throne of her God. 
 
 1835 
 Then frown' d the dread father ; his thunders appalling 
 To rattle began, and his whirlwinds to roar ; 
 Then trembled the host, but they heeded his calling. 
 And Chloe Jip-snatching, to heaven they soar. 
 we had a sister on earthly dominions I 
 They sang as through heaven triumphant they stray' d, 
 And bore with flush' d faces and fluttering pinions 
 To God's throne of brightness the yet praying maid. 
 
 P. 437- 
 
 Sea- Song. {J^i^ig Christian stood beside the 
 
 viast~\ 
 
 In 1826 and 1835 the title was changed to 
 National Song. 
 
286 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Borrow published no less than four versions of this 
 National Song : 
 
 1. In T/ie Monthly Magazine, 1823, p. 437, 
 
 2. \\\ Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 146 — 148, 
 
 3. In The Foreign Quarterly Revietu, 1830, 
 
 pp. 70—71, 
 
 4. In Targum, 1835, PP- 49—5 o- 
 
 Upon each occasion he practically rewrote the 
 Song, so that all four versions differ completely. 
 As an illustration of these differences I give the first 
 stanza of each version : 
 
 1823. 
 King Christian stood beside the mast. 
 
 In smoke and flame ; 
 His heavy cannon rattled fast 
 Against the Gotlwien, as they pass'd: 
 Then sunk each hostile sail and mast 
 
 In smoke and flame. 
 " Fly, {said the foe,) fly, all that can, 
 For who with Denmark's Christian 
 
 Will ply the bloody game ? " 
 
 1826. 
 
 Xing Christian stood beside the mast 
 
 Smoke, tnixt with flatne, 
 Hung o'er his guns, that rattled fast 
 Against the Gothmen, as they passed ; 
 Theft sunk each hostile sail and mast 
 
 In sfnoke and flame. 
 " Fly/" said the foe : ''fly I all that can, 
 Nor wage, with DeniJiark's Christian, 
 
 The dread, unequal game.''' 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 287 
 
 1830. 
 King Christian by the main-mast stood 
 
 In smoke a7id tnist 1 
 So pour'd his guns their fiery flood 
 That Gothmen^s heads and helmets bow''d ; 
 Their sterns, their masts fell crashing loud 
 
 In smoke and mist. 
 " Fly" cried they, " let him fly who can, 
 For who shall Denmark^ s Christiati 
 
 Resist ? " 
 
 1835- 
 King Christian stood beside the mast 
 In smoke and mist. 
 
 His weapons, hammering hard and fast, 
 Through helms and brains of Gothmeii passd. 
 Then sank each hostile sail and mast 
 In s?fioke a?id mist. 
 " Fly," said the foe, '■''fly all that cati. 
 For who cati Denmark's Christian 
 Resist 1 " 
 
 P. 438. 
 The Erl King. [IV/w is it that gallops so late 
 on the wild l'\ 
 
 (3) 
 
 The Monthly Magazine, Vol. Ivii, 1824. 
 
 P- 235- 
 Bernard's Address to his Army. {^Freshly 
 blew the morning breeze~\ 
 
 \ 
 
288 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 P. 335- 
 The Singing Mariner. \}Vho will ever have 
 again] 
 
 Reprinted in The Expeditio)i to Birting's Land and 
 Other Ballads, 19 14, pp. 16 — 18. 
 
 P. 431- 
 The French Princess. {Towai-ds France a 
 maiden went\ 
 
 P. 526. 
 The Nightingale. \^In midnighfs calm hour 
 the Nightingale sings\ 
 
 Reprinted in The Expedition to Birtifig's Land and 
 Other Ballads, 19 14, pp. 19 — 20. 
 
 (4) 
 The Universal Revieiv, Vol. i, 1824. 
 
 R 391. 
 A Review of Fortsetzung des Faust Von Goethe. 
 Von C. C. L. Schone. (Berlin.) 
 
 P. 394. 
 A Review of Qilenschlagers Samlede digte. 
 [Copenhagen.) 
 
 Pp- 491—513- 
 A Review of Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey 
 throitgh Russia and Siberian Tartaiy, from the 
 Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea. By Capt. 
 John Dundas, R.N. [London, 1824.) 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 289 
 
 (5) 
 The Monthly Magazine, Vol. Iviii, 1S24 — 1825. 
 
 Pp. 19—22. 
 Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A Prose 
 Essay. Pa7't i. Including ////^r^/?"^ the following 
 Ballad : 
 W'aldemar's Chase. \_Latc at eve they were 
 toiling on Harribee bank'] 
 
 Reprinted in Roma7itic Ballads, 1826, pp. 115 — 116. 
 
 P. 47- 
 War-Song ; Written when the French first 
 invaded Spain. {Arise, ye sons of injiir d Spain] 
 
 P. 432. 
 Danish Songs and Ballads. No. i, Bear 
 Song. \The squirrel thafs sporting] 
 
 Reprinted in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 144 — 145. 
 Pp. 498—500. 
 
 Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A 
 Prose Essay. Part ii. 
 
 (6) 
 
 The Monthly Magazine, Vol. lix, 1825. 
 
 Pp. 25 — 26 and 103 — 104. 
 
 Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A Prose 
 Essay. Parts Hi and iv. 
 
290 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Pp. 143—144. 
 
 The Deceived Merman. {Fair Agnes left her 
 mother s door~\ 
 
 Reprinted (with very considerable changes in the 
 text, the first line reading "■Fair Agnes alotie on 
 the sea-shore stood'') in Romantic Ballads, 1826, 
 pp. 120 — 123. 
 
 In 1854 Borrow rewrote this Ballad, and furnished 
 it with a new title Agnes and the Merman. The 
 following stanzas taken from each, will serve to 
 show the difference between the two versions : — 
 1826. 
 The Merman up to the church door came ; 
 His eyes they shone like a yellow flame ; 
 
 His face was ivhite, and his beard was green — 
 A fairer demon was never seen. 
 
 " Ahiv, Agnes, Agnes, list to me, 
 Thy babes are longing so after thee.'' 
 
 ^'- 1 catinot come yet, here must 1 stay 
 Until the priest shall have said his say." 
 
 1854. 
 In at the door the Merman treads — 
 Away the images turned their heads. 
 
 His face ivas white, his beard was green. 
 His eyes were full of love, I ween. 
 
 ^^ Hear, Agnes, hear I 'tis time for thee 
 To come to thy Jiome below the sea." 
 
 " / cannot come yet, I here must stay. 
 Until the priest has said his say." 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 291 
 
 Pp. 30S, 411, and 507. 
 
 Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A Prose 
 Essay. Parts z>, vi, and vii. 
 
 (7) 
 
 The Monthly Magazine, Vol. Ix, 1825. 
 
 Pp. 296 — 297 * and 424 — 425. 
 
 Danish Traditions and Superstitions. A Prose 
 Essay. Parts viii and ix. 
 
 * Pages 296 and 297 are misnumbered 216 and 217. 
 
 (8) 
 
 The Universal Review, Vol. ii, 1825. 
 
 Pp- 315—331- 
 
 A Re\'iew of The Devil's Elixir; from the 
 German of Hoffman. (London, Cadell, 2 vols.) 
 
 Pp. 550-566. 
 
 A Review of Dafiske Folkesagn, Sa7)ilede af /. M. 
 Thiele. {Copenhagen, 18 18 — 1823.) 
 
292 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 (9) 
 
 The Foreign Quarterly Review, Vol. vi, No. xi, 
 
 June, 1830, pp. 48 — 87. 
 
 A Review of Dansk-twrsk Litteraturlexicon, 181 8, 
 AND Den Danske Digiehmsts Middelalder fra 
 Arrebo til Tullin f rents ti lie t i Academiske 
 Forelcesinger holdne i A archie, 1798 — 1800. 
 
 A long critical prose article by John Bowring, 
 including, inter alia, the following Ballads by 
 George Borrow : — 
 
 1. King Oluf the Saint. [_I<ing Olnf and his 
 brother bold'] 
 
 Reprinted in Queen Berngei-d, The Bard and tlie 
 Di-eams, and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 23 — 29. 
 This is an entirely different Ballad from that 
 which had appeared, under the title Saint Oluf, in 
 Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 53 — 57- 
 
 2. The Brother Avenged. [/ stood before my 
 master s board] 
 
 Reprinted, with some textual variations, in The 
 Brother Avenged a}id Other Ballads, \<^\l, pp. 5 — 8. 
 
 3. Aager and Eliza. ^Tims the valiant knight. 
 
 Sir Aager] 
 
 Previously printed, but with endless variations in 
 the text, in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 47—52, 
 where the first line reads, ^' Have ye heard of bold 
 Sir Aager." 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 293 
 
 As an example of the differences of text to be 
 observed in the two versions, I give three stanzas 
 of each : 
 
 1826. 
 
 Up his mighty limbs he gather' d, 
 Took the coffin on his back ; 
 And to fair Eliza's bower 
 Hastened, by the well-knoivn track. 
 
 On her chamber^ s lowly portal, 
 With his fingers long and thin, 
 Thrice he tapp''d, and bade Eliza 
 Straightway let her bridegroom in I 
 
 Straightzvay answer' d fair Eliza, 
 " / xvill not undo my door 
 Till I hear thee name sweet Jesus, 
 As thou oft hast done before.'' 
 
 1830. 
 
 Up Sir Aager rose, his coffin 
 Bore he on his bended back. 
 Tow'ds the bower of sweet Eliza 
 Was his sad and silent track. 
 
 He the door tapp'd with his coffiin. 
 For his fingers had no skin ; 
 
 " Jiise, O rise, fny siveet Eliza / 
 Rise, and let thy bridegroom in.' 
 
 Straightway answer' d fair Eliza : 
 " / will ?iot undo my door 
 
 'Till thou na??ie the name of Jesus, 
 Even as thou could' st before." 
 
294 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 4. Morning Song. \^From eastern qiiai-ters 
 noiv] 
 
 Reprinted in The Expedition to Birting's Land, and 
 Other Ballads, 1 9 1 4, pp. 21 — 22. 
 
 5. Danish National Song. \_King Christian by 
 the main-mast stoo(i\ 
 
 Previously printed : 
 
 1. In The Mo?ithly Magazine, Vol. Ivi, 1823, p. 437. 
 
 2. In Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 146 — 14S. 
 
 Afterwards reprinted in Targtim, 1835, pp. 49 — 50. 
 
 6. The Seaman. \_A seaman with a bosom /ighf] 
 
 7. Sir Sinclair. [5/r Sinclair sailed from the 
 Scottish grottncT] 
 
 Reprinted in Targum, 1835, PP- 5i— 55- 
 
 8. Thorvald. \Sivayne Tveskieg did a man 
 possess^ 
 
 Reprinted in Toi-d of Hafshorougti and Other 
 Ballads, 1914, pp. 11 — 15. 
 
 9. When I was Little. \There was a tijue 
 ivhen I ivas very tiny\ 
 
 ID. Birth of Christ. [Each spring, — luhen the 
 mists have abandon d the eartli\ 
 
 11. Time's Perspective. \Through the city sped 
 a youth^ 
 
COyTRlBUTIOyS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 295 
 
 12. The Morning Walk. \_To the beach grove 
 with so sweet an air'] 
 
 Reprinted in T/ie Expedition to Biiiings Land and 
 Other Bai/ads, 19 14, pp. 23 — 27. 
 
 13. The Aspen. [JVhat whispers so strange at 
 the hour of midnight^ 
 
 14. Dame Martha's Fountain. [Dame Martha 
 divelt at Karisegaaj'd] 
 
 Reprinted in Queen Ber?igerd, The Bard and the 
 Dreams., and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 13 — 15. 
 
 15. Peter Colbiornsen. \^Fore Frcdereksteen 
 
 King Carl he /ay~] 
 
 Reprinted in Tord of Hafsborough and Other 
 Ballads, 1 9 14, pp. 16^20. 
 
 16. The Ruins of Uranienborg. \Thon by the 
 strand dost wander] 
 
 Reprinted, but with much textual variation, in 
 Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads, 191 3, 
 pp. 13—18. 
 
 (10.) 
 The Norfolk Chronicle, August i2>th, 1832. 
 
 A Note on " The Origin of the Word 
 
 ' Tory '." 
 
 A short prose article, signed " George Borroio," and 
 dated ^'Norwich, August 6." 
 
296 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 The AthencBU)n, August 20, 1836, pp. 587 — 588. 
 The Gypsies in Russia and in Spain. 
 
 Two letters from Borrow, giving an account of liis 
 experiences of the gypsies in Russia and in Spain. 
 
 " All the episodes that he relates he incorporated in The Bible in 
 Spain. The two letters plainly indicate that all the time Borrow 
 was in Spain his mind was more filled with the subject of the 
 gypsies than with any other question. He did his work well for 
 the Bible Society no doubt . . . but there is a humourous note in 
 the fact that Borrow should have utilised his position as a missionary 
 — for so we must count him— to make himself thoroughly acquainted 
 with g>'psy folklore, and gypsy songs and dances." — [Shorter, 
 George Borrow and his Circle, p. 240.] 
 
 (12) 
 
 The Illustrated Londoji News, December 8th, 1855, p. 685. 
 
 Ancient Runic Stone, Recently Found in the 
 Isle of Man. 
 
 Reprinted in George Borrow and his Circle, by 
 Clement King Shorter, 19 13, pp. 301 — 303. 
 
 (13.) 
 A Practical Granwiar of the Antieiit Gaelic. By 
 the Rev. John Kelly, LL.D. Edited by the Rev. 
 William Gill, 8vo, 1859. 
 
 p. xi. 
 Translation from the Manx. S^And what is 
 glory, but the radiance of a name, — ] 
 
 Borrow's statement in the closing paragraph (printed /t75/, p. 299) 
 of his Essay on The Welsh and their Literature renders it possible 
 to place this Translation to his credit. 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 297 
 p. xix. 
 
 A Letter from Borrow to the Editor, re- 
 garding Manx Ballads. 
 
 (14) 
 
 The Quarterly Revieio, January, 1861, pp. 38 — 63. 
 
 The Welsh and their Literature. A Prose 
 Essay. 
 
 This Essay was in fact a review, by Borrow himself, 
 of his own work The Sleeping Bard. 
 
 " In the autumn [of i860] Borrow determined to call 
 attention to it [The Sleeping Bard] himself. He 
 revamped an old article he had written in 1830, 
 entitled T/te Welsh and their Literature, and sent it 
 to Mr. Murray for The Quarterly Review. . . . The 
 modern literature and things of Wales were not 
 introduced into the article . . . and it appeared 
 anonymously in The Quarterly Review for January, 
 1 861. It is in fact Borrow's own (and the only) 
 review of The Sleeping Bard, which, however, had 
 the decisive result of selling off the whole edition in 
 a month," — [Knapp's Life and Correspondcfice of 
 George Borrow, 1899, vol. ii, pp. 195 — 196.] 
 
 The Manuscript of this Essay, or Review, is not at present 
 forthcoming. But, fortunately, the MS. of certain paragraphs 
 with which Borrow brought the Essay to a conclusion, and which 
 Lockhart in the exercise of his editorial function quite properly 
 struck out, have been preserved. The barefaced manner in 
 which Borrow anonymously praised and advertised his own work 
 fully justified Lockhart's action. I print these paragraphs below. 
 ]\Iy principal reason for doing so is this, that the closing lines 
 
298 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 afford evidence of Borrow's authorship of other portions of Gill's 
 Introduction to his Edition of Kelly's Manx Gratnmar, 1859, 
 beyond those which until now have been attributed to his pen : 
 
 " Our having mentioned The Rojnany Rye gives us an opportunity 
 of saying a few words concerning that work, to the merits of which, 
 and likewise to those of Lavengro^ of which it is the sequel, adequate 
 justice has never been awarded. It is a truly remarkable book, 
 abounding not only with strange and amusing adventure, but with 
 deep learning communicated in a highly agreeable form. We owe it 
 an amende hotiorab/e for not having in our recent essay on Buddhism 
 quoted from it some remarkable passages on that superstition, which 
 are to be found in a conversation between the hero of the tale and the 
 man in black. Never was the subject of Buddhism treated in a 
 manner so masterly and original. But the book exhibits what is 
 infinitely more precious than the deepest learning, more desirable 
 than the most amusing treasury of adventure, a fearless, honest spirit, 
 a resolution to tell the truth however strange the truth may appear to 
 the world. 
 
 " A remarkable proof of this is to be found in what is said in it 
 respecting the Italians. It is all very well at the present day, after the 
 miracles lately performed in Italy by her sons, to say that Italy is the 
 land to which we must look for great men ; that it is not merely the 
 country of singers, fiddlers, itnprovisatori, and linguists, but of men, 
 of beings who may emphatically be called men. But who, three or 
 four years ago, would have ventured to say as much ? Why there was 
 one and only one who ventured to say so, and that was George 
 Borrow in his work entitled The Romany Rye. Many other things 
 equally bold and true he has said in that work, and also in its 
 predecessor Lavengro. 
 
 " In conclusion we wish to give Mr. Borrow a piece of advice, 
 namely, that with all convenient speed he publish whatever works 
 he has written and has not yet committed to the press. Life is very 
 precarious, and when an author dies, his unpublished writings are too 
 frequently either lost to the world, or presented in a shape which all 
 but stultifies them. Of Mr. Borrow's unpublished writings there is a 
 catalogue at the end of The Rotnany Rye, and a most remarkable 
 catalogue it is, comprising works on all kinds of interesting subjects. 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATCRE. 
 
 299 
 
 Of these, the one which we are most eager to see is that which is 
 called Wild Wales^ which we have no doubt whenever it appears will 
 be welcomed as heartily as The Bible in Spain was seventeen years 
 ago, a book which first laid open the mysterious peninsula to the eyes 
 of the world, and that the book on Wales will be followed by the one 
 which is called Wanderings in quest of Manx Literature. Now the 
 title alone of that book is worth a library of commonplace works, for 
 it gives the world an inkling of a thing it never before dreamed of, 
 namely, that the little Celtic Isle of Man has a vernacular literature. 
 What a pity if the book itself should be eventually lost ! Here some 
 person will doubtless exclaim, ' Perhaps the title is all book, and there 
 is no book behind it ; what can Mr. Borrow know of Manx 
 literature ?' Stay, friend, stay ! A Manx grammar has just appeared, 
 edited by a learned and highly respectable Manx clergyman, in the 
 preface to which are some beautiful and highly curious notices of 
 Manx vernacular Gallic literature, which are, however, confessedly not 
 written by the learned Manx clergyman, nor by any other learned 
 Manxman, but by George Borrow, an Englishman, the author of The 
 Bible in Spain and The Roma?iy Rye:' 
 
 A number of translations from Welsh Poetry were introduced 
 by Borrow into this Essay. They were all, as he explained in a 
 footnote, derived from his projected Songs of Europe. With the 
 exception of an occasional stray couplet, or single line, the 
 following list includes them all : — 
 
 1. From Iolo Goch's " Ode to the Plough- 
 man." [^The mighty Hu with mead zvottld pay'] 
 
 Reprinted, with several changes in the text, in ]Vild 
 Wales, 1862, Vol. iii, pp. 292 — 293. 
 
 A further extract from the same Ode, '■'■ If ivith small things we Hu 
 compare" etc. , is given in a footnote on p. 40. 
 
 2. Saxons and Britons. \_A serpent that coils\ 
 
 Reprinted (the first line reading A serpent 'w/iith 
 coils) in Wild Wales, 1862, Vol. i, p. 48- 
 
300 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 3. The destiny of the Britons. {Their Lord 
 
 they shall prais el 
 
 These lines were employed by Borrow in the 
 following year as a motto for the title-pages of Wild 
 Wa/es. 
 
 4. From an Ode on Llywelyn, by Dafydd 
 Benfras. \Llywelyn of the potent hand oft 
 wroghtl 
 
 5. From an Ode on the Mansion of Owen 
 Glendower, by Iolo Goch. {J Is likeness noiv 
 r II linin you out~\ 
 
 6. Epigram on the rising of Owen Glendower. 
 {One thousand foiLr htmdred, no less and no more'] 
 
 7. From an Ode to Griffith ap Nicholas, by 
 GwiLYM AP I EUAN Hen. {Griffith ap Nicholas/ 
 who like thee] 
 
 Reprinted in Wild Wales, 1862, Vol. iii, p. 327. 
 
 8. Epigram on a Spider. {From out its zvomb it 
 weaves with care] 
 
 (15) 
 
 Once a Week, Vol. \\, January ^th, 1862, pp. 37—39- 
 
 Ballads of the Isle of Man. Translated 
 FROM the Manx. By George Borrow : 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 301 
 
 1. Brown William. \_Let no one in Qrcahicss loo 
 confident de] 
 
 Reprinted in Mo//a Miscellany, 1S69, pp. 67 — 70. 
 
 Again reprinted (with the prose Introduction con- 
 siderably curtailed) in Brown William, The Poiver 
 of the Harp, and Other Ballads, 19 13, pp. 5 — xi. 
 
 2. MoLLiE Charane. \0 , MolHe Charane, zvhere 
 got yoti yo2ir gold .?*] 
 
 Reprinted in Mollie Charane and Other Ballads, 
 1913, PP- 5—7- 
 
 (16) 
 Once a Week, Vol. vi, March ?>th, 1862, pp. 289 — 294. 
 
 Emelian the Fool. 
 
 The first of a series of three Russian Popular 
 Tales, in Prose, translated by George Borrow. 
 
 Also printed privately in pamphlet form, as 
 follows : — 
 
 Emelian the Fool / A Tale / Translated from the 
 Russian I By j George Borrow / London : / Printed 
 for Private Circulation / 19 13. — Crown octavo, 
 pp. 37. [See ante. Part I, No. 53.] 
 
 The Tale was included in The Avon Booklet, Vol. ii, 
 1904, pp. 175—197- 
 
 Borrow had projected a volume to contain a series 
 of twelve Russian Popular Tales, and this was 
 included among the Works advertised as "ready 
 for the press" at the end of The Romany Rye. 
 
302 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Unfortunately the project failed to meet with 
 success, and these three Tales were all that finally 
 appeared. 
 
 (17) 
 Once a Week, Vol. vi, May \^th, 1862, pp. 572—574- 
 
 The Story of Yvashka with the Bear's 
 Ear. 
 
 The second of a series of Russian Popular Tales, in 
 
 Prose, translated by George Borrow. 
 
 Reprinted in The Sphere, February 1st, 191 3, 
 
 p. 136. 
 
 Also printed privately in pamphlet form as follows : — 
 
 The Story / of / Yvashka with the Bear's Ear / 
 
 Translated fro?n the Russian \ By / George Borrow / 
 
 London : I Printed for Private Circulation j igiT,. 
 
 Square demy octavo, pp. 23. [See ante. Part I, 
 
 No. 26.] 
 
 The Story was also included in The Avon Booklet, 
 
 Vol. ii, 1904, pp. 199 — 210. 
 
 (18) 
 Once a Week, Vol. vii, August 2nd, 1862, pp. 152—155. 
 
 Harald Harfagr. a Discourse Between 
 
 A Valkyrie and a Raven, &c. [K? luen wearing 
 
 bracelets] 
 
 Reprinted (under the amended title The Valkyrie 
 and Raven) in The Nightingale, The Valkyrie and 
 Raven, and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 11 — 20. 
 

 
 mt ^W i.4^V 
 
 |^'>.l ¥wl^ i^KUv V^n?n,. iVv; 
 
 Harald Harfagr= The Valkyrie and Raven. 
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 305 
 
 A Prose Introduction, which preceded the IJallad in 
 Once a JVeek, was not reprinted in T/ie 7V/X''//////i,7?/c, 
 The Valkyrie and Raven, and Other Ballads. 
 
 A facsimile (actual size) of a page of the Original 
 Manuscript is given herewith. 
 
 In Once a IVeek this Ballad was accompanied by 
 an Illustration, engraved upon wood, representing 
 the Valkyrie discoursing with the Raven. 
 
 (19) 
 Once a Week, Vol. vii, October ^^th, 1862, pp. 403 — 406, 
 
 The Story of Tim. 
 
 The third (and last) of a series of Russian Popular 
 Tales, in Prose, translated by George Borrow. 
 
 Also printed privately in pamphlet form, as 
 follows : — 
 
 The Story of Tim / Translated from the Russian / 
 By I George Borrow / London : / Printed for Private 
 Circulation j 1913 — Crown octavo, p. 31. [See 
 ante, Part I, No. 54.] 
 
 The Story was also included in The Avon Booklet, 
 Vol. ii, 1904, pp. 211 — 229. 
 
 . (20) 
 Once a Week, Vol. \u\, January yd, 1863, pp. 35 — 36. 
 
 The Count of Vendee's Daughter. [IVilkm a 
 bower the ivovib I left\ 
 
 Reprinted in The Venur Raven, The Count of 
 Vender s Daughter, and Other Ballads, 19 13, 
 pp. 12—17. 
 
3o6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 (21) 
 
 Once a Week, Vol. viii, December 12///, 1863, p. 686. 
 
 The Hail-Storm ; Or, The Death of Bui. 
 [^A/l eager to sail} 
 
 This Ballad differs entirely from those which 
 appeared, under the title The Hail-Storm only, in 
 Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp. 136—138, in Targum, 
 1835, pp. 42 — 43, and in Young Swaigder or The 
 Force of Runes and Other Ballads, 1 9 1 3, pp. 1 4 — 15. 
 Each of these three versions consists of four eight- 
 Hne stanzas ; the present Ballad extends to 84 lines, 
 arranged in irregular stanzas. 
 
 (22) 
 
 Benjamin Robert Haydon : Correspondence a7id 
 Table Talk. By Frederic Wordsworth Haydon, 
 1876, Vol. i, pp. 360 — 361. 
 
 A Letter from Borrow to B. R. Haydon. 
 
 Reprinted in George Borrow and his Circle. By 
 Clement King Shorter, 191 3, p- 25. 
 
 (23) 
 Life, Writings, and Correspondence of George 
 Borrow. By William I. Knapp, 2 Vols, 1899 : 
 
 Vol. ii, pp. 91—95- 
 Tale from the Cornish. [^In Lavans parish 
 
 once of yore'\ 
 
 Reprinted (with some small textual revisions) in 
 Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other 
 Ballads, 191 3, pp. 8 — 18. 
 
COXTRIIWT/ONS TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 307 
 Vol. ii, p. 238. 
 
 Hungarian Gvpsv Song. \To the viounfaiii (he 
 
 fowler has taken his ivay\ 
 
 The two volumes contain, in addition, a consider- 
 able number of Letters and other documents 
 published therein for the first time. 
 
 (24) 
 
 George Borrow : T/ie Man and his JVor/e. By 
 R. A. J. Walling, 8vo, 1908. 
 
 Several Letters by Borrow, addressed to Dr. 
 [afterwards Sir John] Bowring, 
 
 were printed for the first time in this volume. 
 
 (25) 
 
 T/ie Life of George Borrciv. By Herbert Jenkins, 
 8vo, 1912. 
 
 Several Letters, and portions of Letters, bv 
 Borrow, 
 
 were printed for the first time in this volume. 
 
 (26) 
 The Fortnigtitly Review, April, 1913, pp. 680 — 688. 
 
 Nine Letters from Borrow to his Wife. 
 
 The letters form a portion of an article by Mr. 
 Clement Shorter, entitled George Borrow in 
 Scotland. 
 
3o8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Eight of these letters had been printed previously 
 in Letters to his Wife Mary Borrow., 19 13 [see 
 ante., Part I, No. 19]. The remaining letter was 
 afterwards included in Letters to his Mother Ann 
 Borrow and Other Correspondents, 1913 [see ante^ 
 Part I, No. 57]. 
 
 (27) 
 
 George Borroiv and his Circle. By Clement King 
 Shorter, 8vo, 1913. 
 
 Many Letters by Borrow, 
 
 together with a considerable number of other 
 important documents, were first printed in this 
 volume. 
 
 A^ote. 
 
 The various Poems and Prose Articles included in the above list, 
 to which no reference is appended, have not yet been reprinted in 
 any shape or form. 
 
 Query. 
 
 There exists a galley-proof of a Ballad by Borrow entitled The 
 Father s Return. From the Polish of Mickiewicz. The Ballad 
 consists of twenty-one four-line stanzas, and commences " Take 
 children yozir way, for the last time to-day." This proof is set up 
 in small type, and was evidently prepared for insertion in some 
 provincial newspaper. This paper I have not been able to trace. 
 Should its identity be known to any reader of the present Biblio- 
 graphy I should be grateful for a note of it. 
 
 *^* In The Tatter for November 26, 1913, appeared a short story 
 entitled The Potato Patch. By G. Borrow. This story was not 
 by the Author of Targtttii. ' Borrow ' was a mis-print ; the name 
 should have read ' G. Barrow.' 
 
PART III. 
 
 BORROVIANA : COMPLETE VOLUMES 
 OF BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM. 
 
PART in. 
 
 BORROVIANA: COMPLETE VOLUMES OF 
 BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM. 
 
 (I) 
 
 George Borrow in / East Anglia / By / William A. 
 Dutt / {Quotation from Ejnersoii] / London / David 
 Nutt, 270 — 271, Strand / 1896. 
 
 Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. 80. 
 
 Issued in paper boards backed with cloth, with the title- 
 page, slightly abbreviated, reproduced upon the front 
 cover. Some copies are in cream-coloured paper wrappers. 
 
 (2) 
 
 Life, Writings, / and Correspondence of / George 
 Borrow / Derived from Official and other / 
 Authentic Sources / By William I. Knapp, Ph.D., 
 LL.D. / Author and Editor of French and Spanish 
 Text-Books / Editor of " Las Obras de Boscan," 
 "Diego de Mendoza," etc. / And late of Yale and 
 Chicago Universities / With Portrait and Illustra- 
 tions / In Two Volumes / Vol. I. [Vol. II.] / 
 
312 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 London / John Murray, Albemarle Street / New 
 York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / 1899. 
 
 Collation : — Demy octavo : 
 Vol. I. pp. XX + 402. 
 
 Vol. II. pp. X + 406, with an inserted slip carrying a 
 List oi Errata for both Volumes. 
 
 Issued in dull green cloth boards, gilt lettered. 
 
 (3) 
 
 George Borrow / The Man and his Work / By / 
 R. A. J. Walling / Author of "A Sea Dog of 
 Devon " / Cassell and Company, Limited / London, 
 Paris, New York. Toronto and Melbourne / 
 
 MCMVIII. 
 
 Collation : — Crown octavo, pp. xii + 356. 
 
 Issued in dull red cloth boards, gilt lettered. 
 
 Several Letters from Borrow to Dr. [afterwards Sir John] Bowring 
 
 were first printed in this volume. 
 
 (4) 
 
 George Borrow / Von / Dr. Bernhard Blaesing. / 
 Berlin / Emil Ebering / 19 10. 
 
 Collation : — Royal octavo, pp. 78. 
 
 Issued in mottled-grey paper wrappers, with the title- 
 page reproduced upon the front. 
 
BORROVIANA. 
 
 (5) 
 
 313 
 
 Cymmrodorion / Society's / Publications. / Georu-e 
 Borrows Second / Tour in Wales. / By / T. C. 
 Cantrill, B.Sc, / and / J. Pringle. / From "Y 
 Cymmrodor," Vol. xxii. * / London : Issued by the 
 Society, / New Stone Buildings, 64, Chancery 
 Lane. 
 
 * Y Cyniniyodor, vol. xxii, 1910, pp. 160 — 170. 
 
 Collation: — Demy octavo, pp. 11, without title-page, the 
 title, as above, appearing upon the front wrapper 
 only. 
 
 Issued (in April, 191 1) in bright green paper wrappers, 
 with the title in full upon the front. 
 
 (6) 
 
 George Borrow / The Man and his Books / By / 
 Edward Thomas / Author of / "The Life of 
 Richard Jefferies," " Light and / Twilight," " Rest 
 and Unrest," " Maurice / Maeterlinck," Etc. / W^ith 
 Portraits and Illustrations / London / Chapman (!^ 
 Hall, Ltd. / 1912. 
 
 Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xii + 333 + viii. 
 Issued in deep mauve coloured cloth boards, gilt lettered. 
 
314 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 (7) 
 
 The Life of/ George Borrow / Compiled from Un- 
 published / Official Documents, his / Works, Corre- 
 spondence, etc. / By Herbert Jenkins / With a 
 Frontispiece in Photogravure, and / Twelve other 
 Illustrations / London / John Murray, Albemarle 
 Street, W. / 191 2. 
 
 Collation : — Demy octavo, pp. xxvi [misnumbered xxviii] + 
 496. 
 
 Issued in bright green cloth boards, gilt lettered. A 
 Second Edition appeared in 191 3. 
 
 (8) 
 George / Borrow / A Sermon preached in / Norwich 
 Cathedral on / July 6, 1913 / By / H. C. Beeching, 
 D.D., D.Litt. / Dean of Norwich / London / 
 Jarrold & Sons / Publishers. 
 
 Collation: — Crown octavo, pp. 12. 
 
 Issued in drab paper wrappers, with the title-page 
 reproduced upon the front, the words Threepence Net being 
 added at foot. 
 
 (9) 
 
 Souvenir / of the / George Borrow / Celebration / 
 Norwich, July 5th, 191 3 / By / James Hooper / 
 Prepared and Published for / the Committee / 
 Jarrold & Sons / Publishers / London and 
 Norwich. 
 
BORROVIANA. 
 
 3'5 
 
 Collation : — Royal octavo, pp. 48, with a Portrait-Frontis- 
 piece, and twenty-four Illustrations and Portraits. 
 
 Issued in white pictorial paper wrappers, with trimmed 
 edges. 
 
 (ID) 
 
 Catalogue of the Exhibition / Commemorative of 
 George Borrow / Author of " Lavengro " etc. held / 
 at the Norwich Castle Museum. / July, 1913. / 
 Price ^d. 
 
 Collation : — Post octavo, pp. 12. 
 
 Issued wire-stitched, without wrappers, and with trimmed 
 edees. 
 
 (II) 
 
 George Borrow / and his Circle / Wherein may be 
 found many / hitherto Unpublished Letters / of 
 Borrow and his Friends / By / Clement King 
 Shorter / Hodder and Stoughton / London New 
 York Toronto / 19 13. 
 
 Collation : — Square octavo, printed in half-sheets, pp. 
 xix -f 450 ; with a Portrait of Borrow as Frontis- 
 piece, and numerous other Illustrations. 
 
 Issued in dark crimson paper boards, backed with 
 buckram, gilt lettered. 
 
 There are several variations in this edition as compared with one 
 published simultaneously in America by Messrs. Houghton, 
 
3i6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BORROW. 
 
 Mifflin & Co. of Cambridge, Mass. These variations are con- 
 nected with Sorrow's attitude towards the British and Foreign 
 Bible Society, Mr. Shorter having taken occasion to pass some 
 severe strictures upon the obvious cant which characterised the 
 Bible Society in its relations with Borrow. These strictures, 
 although supported by ample quotations from unpublished 
 documents, the London publishers, being a semi-religious house, 
 persuaded the author to cancel. 
 
 (12) 
 
 A / Bibliography / of / The Writings in Prose and 
 Verse / of / George Henry Borrow / By / Thomas 
 J. Wise / London : / Printed for Private Circulation 
 only / By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. / 19 14. 
 
 Collation: — Foolscap quarto, pp. xxii + 316, with Sixty- 
 nine facsimiles of Title-pages and Manuscripts. 
 
 Issued in bright green paper boards, lettered across the 
 back, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. 
 One hundred copies only were printed. 
 
London : 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 
 
 By Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd. 
 
 1914. 
 
14 DAY USE 
 
 RETURN TO DESK FROM WHICH BORROWED 
 
 LOAN DEPT. 
 
 This book is due on the last date stamped below, or 
 
 on the date to which renewed. 
 
 Renewed books are subject to immediate recall. 
 
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