Anonymous British Poems

There were three young gypsies came to our hall door,
They came brave and boldly O.
And there's one sang high and the other sang low
And the Lady's seen the raggle-taggle gypsy O
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It fell about the Martinmas time,
And a gay time it was then,
When our goodwife got puddings to make,
And she 's boild them in the pan.
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The king sits in Dunfermline town,
Drinking the blude-red wine o:
'O whare will I get a skeely skipper
To sail this new ship of mine o?'
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The First Part
Why doe you boast of Arthur and his knightes,
Knowing 'well' how many men have endured fightes?
For besides King Arthur and Lancelot du Lake,
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I know a curious little boy,
Who is always asking "Why?"
Why this, why that, why then, why now?
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Behold me once more your old poet ecstatic,
Thought old, blind, and nearly three parts rheumatic,
Yet, alert in my car,
Like a young man-of-war,
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He wore twin stripes of gold upon
And empty tunic sleeve;
His eyes were blue, his face so young
One hardly cold believe
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Hie upon Hielands,
and laigh upon Tay,
Bonnie George Campbell
rode out on a day.
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Lulley, lully, lulley, lully,
The faucon hath born my mak away.
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There were three rauens sat on a tree,
Downe a downe, hay down, hay downe
There were three rauens sat on a tree,
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