esent
volume is known to exist.

The Cruel Step-Dame. [_My father up of the country 30
rode_]

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.

[Picture: Title page of The Serpent King]

[Picture: Manuscript of The Knight in the Deer's Shape]

(22) [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. 1-2; 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.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

PAGE

The King's Wake. [_To-night is the night that the wake 5
they hold_]

An early draft of this ballad has the title _The
Watchnight_.

Swayne Felding. [_Swayne Felding sits at Helsingborg_] 10

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
_Koempe Viser_ of 1854. In the earlier MS. the ballad
bears the title _Swayne Felding's Combat with the Giant_;
the later MS. is entitled _Swayne 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 t