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'Such a noble prize have I brought to

your grace

As never did subject to a king:

'Sir Andrew's shipp I bring with mee;

A braver shipp was never none: Nowe hath your grace two shipps of warr,

Before in England was but one.' King Henry es grace with royall cheere

Welcomed the noble Howard home, And where,' said he, 'is the rover stout, That I myselfe may give the doome?'

The rover, he is safe, my leige, Full many a fadom in the sea; If he were alive as he is dead,

I must have left England many a day: And your grace may thank four men i' the ship

For the victory wee have wonne, These are William Horseley, Henry Hunt, And Peter Simon, and his sonne.'

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And Horseley thou shalt be a knight,

And lands and livings shalt have store; Howard shall be Erle Surrye hight,

As Howards erst have beene before.

Nowe, Peter Simon, thou art old,

I will maintaine thee and thy sonne: And the men shall have five hundred markes

For the good service they have done.' Then in came the queene with ladyes fair To see Sir Andrew Barton, knight; They weend that he were brought on shore, And thought to have seen a gallant sight.

But when they see his deadlye face, And eyes soe hollow in his head, 'I wold give,' quoth the king, a thousand markes,

This man were alive as bee is dead: Yett for the manfull part hee playd,

Which fought soe well with heart and hand,

His men shall have twelvepence a day, Till they come to my brother kings high land.'

FRENNET HALL.

IN Herd's collection of "Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs," this ballad may be found, published there without note or comment. Whatever poetical merit it may have, it is very meagre in its details. It does not even allude to the made in which the Lady Frennet cruelly and inhospitably put her young guest to death, although the Scottish historians, and some ballad makers after them, have detailed the circum tances, as they occured in 1630. She lodged them in a tower, and having secured the doors and windows, set fire to it, and burned them. Some versions describe this fearful catastrophe with a minuteness terribly graphic.

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'Bear witness, a' ye powers on high!

Ye lights that 'gin to shine! This nicht shall prove the sacred cord That knits your faith and mine.'

The lady slie, with honey'd words,

Enticed the youths to stay; But morning sun ne'er shone upon Lord John and Rothiemay.

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DR. PERCY, from the fourth edition of whose “Reliques” this interesting ballad is quoted, styles it an "Old Romantic Legend." Nothing is known of its original authorship.

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