You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day;
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

There's many a black black eye, they say, but none so bright as mine;
There's Margaret and Mary, there's Kate and Caroline:
But none so fair as little Alice in all the land they say,
So I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.

[Illustration: THE MAY QUEEN.]

SONG FROM "THE PRINCESS."

As thro' the land at eve we went,
And pluck'd the ripen'd ears,
We fell out, my wife and I,
O we fell out I know not why,
And kiss'd again with tears,
And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
For when we came where lies the child
We lost in other years,
There above the little grave,
O there above the little grave,
We kiss'd again with tears.

[Illustration: "O THERE ABOVE THE LITTLE GRAVE, WE KISS'D AGAIN WITH
TEARS."]

FROM "HAROLD."

_Tostig._ What for Norway then?
He looks for land among us, he and his.

_Harold._ Seven feet of English land, or something more,
Seeing he is a giant.

_Tostig._ That is noble!
That sounds of Godwin.

_Harold._ Come thou back, and be
Once more a son of Godwin.

_Tostig_ (_turns away_). O brother, brother,
O Harold--

_Harold_ (_laying his hand on Tostig's shoulder_). Nay then, come
thou back to us!

_Tostig_ (_after a pause turning to him_). Never shall any man
say that I, that Tostig
Conjured the mightier Harold from the North
To do the battle for me here in England,
Then left him for the meaner! thee!--
Thou hast no passion for the House of Godwin--
Thou hast but cared to make thyself a king--
Thou hast sold me for a cry--
Thou gavest thy voice against me in the Council--
I hate thee, and despise thee, and defy thee.
Farewell for ever! [_Exit._

_Harold._ On to Stamford-bridge!

[Illustration: "NAY THEN, COME THOU BACK TO US!"]

FROM "THE REVENGE."

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,
But never a moment ceased the fight of the one an