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THE GABEKLTTSTZIE-MAN. 101 |
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" 0 kend my minny I were wi' you, es
Illfardly wad she crook her mou ; Sic a poor man she'd never trow,
After the gaberlunzie-man." " My dear," quo' he, " ye're yet o'er young, And ha' na lear'd the beggars tongue, m
To follow me frae town to town,
And carry the gaberlunzie on.
" Wi' cauk and keel, 111 win your bread, And spindles and whorles for them wha need, Whilk is a gentil trade indeed, n
To carry the gaberlunzie, 0. I'll bow my leg, and crook my knee, And draw a black clout o'er my eye ; A cripple or blind they will ca' me,
While we shall be merry and sing." |
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THE TURNAMENT OF TOTENHAM.
The Turnament of Tolenham was first printed in the History of Totenham, (1631,) by the Rev. Wil-helm Bedwell, rector of the parish, who, says Percy, " so little entered into the spirit of the poem he was publishing, that he contends for its being a serious narrative of a real event, and thinks it must have been written before the time of Edward III., because turnaments were prohibited in that reign." The simple parson derived his copy from a manuscript lent |
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