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Title: The Fountain of Maribo
and other ballads

Author: Anonymous

Editor: Thomas Wise

Release Date: June 15, 2009 [eBook #29123]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOUNTAIN OF MARIBO***

Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library,
UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was
made.

[Picture: Manuscript of Ramund]

THE
FOUNTAIN OF MARIBO
AND OTHER BALLADS

BY
GEORGE BORROW

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

1913

_Copyright in the United States of America_
_by Houghton Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter_.

THE FOUNTAIN OF MARIBO
OR
THE QUEEN AND THE ALGREVE

The Algreve {7} he his bugle wound
_The long night all_--
The Queen in bower heard the sound,
_I'm passion's thrall_.

The Queen her little page address'd,
_The long night all_--
"To come to me the Greve request,"
_I'm passion's thrall_.

He came, before the board stood he,
_The long night all_--
"Wherefore, O Queen, has sent for me?"
_I'm passion's thrall_.

"As soon as e'er my lord is dead,
_The long night all_--
Thou shalt rule o'er my gold so red,"
_I'm passion's thrall_.

"O speak not, Queen, in such wild style,
_The long night all_--
Thou know'st not who may list the while,"
_I'm passion's thrall_.

She fondly thought alone they were,
_The long night all_--
There stood the King, to all gave ear,
_I'm passion's thrall_.

The King two serving men address'd,
_The long night all_--
"To come to me the Queen request,"
_I'm passion's thrall_.

"Hear thou, my Queen, so fair and sle