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GLASGERION. |
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The two following ballads have the same subject, and perhaps had a common original. The " Briton Glaskyrion " is honourably mentioned as a harper by Chaucer, in company with Chiron, Orion, and Orpheus, {House of Fame, B. iii. v. 118,) and with the last he is also associated, as Mr. Finlay has pointed out, by Bishop Douglas, in the Police of Honour. " The Scottish writers," says Jamieson, " adapting the name to their own meridian, call him Glenkindy, Gi-en-
SKEENIE, &C."
Glasgerionis reprinted from Percy's Reliques, iii. 83. |
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Glasgerion was a kings owne sonne, And a harper he was goode;
He harped in the kings chambere, Where cuppe and caudle stoode, |
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