Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice), 1860-1941, ill, Speed, Lancelot, 1860-1931, ill · New York, Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 146
bright Allen-a-Dale is no baron or lord, Yet twenty tall yeomen will draw at his word ; And the best of om^ nobles his bonnet will vail, Who at Eere-cross on Stanmore meets Allen-a-Dale. Allen-a-Dale to his wooing is come;The mother, she askd of his household and home : Though the castle of… … The father was steel, and the mother was stone;They Hfted the latch, and they bade him be gone ;But loud, on the morrow, their wail and their cry:He had laughd on the lass with his bonny black eye.And she fled to the forest to hear a love-tale,And the youth it was told by was Allen-a-Dale ! Sir W.…
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