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Title: Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams
and other ballads

Editor: Thomas J. Wise

Release Date: December 9, 2008 [eBook #27474]

Language: English

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

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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 The Bard and the Dreams]

QUEEN BERNGERD
THE BARD AND THE DREAMS
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_.

QUEEN BERNGERD

Long ere the Sun the heaven arrayed,
For her morning gift her Lord she prayed:
"Give me Samsoe to have and to hold,
And from every maiden a crown of gold."
_Woe befall her_, _Berngerd_.

The King he answered Berngerd thus:
"Madam, crave something less of us,
For many a maid lives 'neath our sway
To 'scape from death could the like not pay."
_Woe befall her_, _Berngerd_.

"My gentle Lord, then hear my prayer,
Suffer not ladies the scarlet to wear;
And, Sir, you must grant me this boon beside,
Let no boor's son a good courser ride."
_Woe befall her_, _Berngerd_.

"What ladies can buy to wear they are free,
And hindrance none they shall meet from me;
If the son of a Boor can a horse support,
'Fore God, I'll never destroy his sport!"
_Woe befall her_, _Berngerd_.

"My Lord, we'll that matter let drop to the ground;
With chains of steel let the land be bound,
So that man or woman th