26

EPIGRAMS:

1. [_A worthless thing is song_, _I trow_] 27

2. [_Though pedants have essayed to hammer_] 27

3. [_When of yourself you have cause to speak_] 27

_Note_.--Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the
first time in this volume.

There is a copy of _The Nightingale_, _The Valkyrie and Raven_, _and
Other Ballads_ in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is
C. 44. d. 38.

[Picture: Manuscript of The Elves]

(45) [GRIMMER AND KAMPER: 1913]

Grimmer and Kamper / The End of Sivard Snarenswayne / 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. 1-2; 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 headlines 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 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

PAGE

GRIMMER AND KAMPER. [_Grimmer walks upon the floor_] 5

MIMMERING TAN. [_The smallest man was Mimmering_] 11

THE END OF SIVARD SNARENSWAYNE. [_Young Sivard he his 14
step-sire slew_]

The two Manuscripts, belonging to the years 1829 and 1854
respectively, 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

_It was Sivard Snareswayne_ [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 Snarensw