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(28) [THE RETURN OF THE DEAD: 1913]

The / Return of the Dead / and Other Ballads / By / George Borrow /
London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 22; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp.
3-4; and Text of the _Ballads_ pp. 5-22. There are head-lines
throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular
_Ballad_ occupying it. Following p. 22 is a leaf, with blank reverse,
and with the following imprint upon its recto: "_London_: / _Printed for
Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to Thirty
copies_." The signatures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), with B (a
full sheet of eight leaves), inset within it.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the
title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8.5 x 6.875
inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

_Contents_.

PAGE

The Return of the Dead. [_Swayne Dyring o'er to the 5
island strayed_]

The Transformed Damsel. [_I take my axe upon my back_] 13

The Forced Consent. [_Within her own fair castelaye_] 15

Ingeborg's Disguise. [_Such handsome court clothes the 19
proud Ingeborg buys_]

Song. [_I've pleasure not a little_] 22

As a further example of Borrow's shorter Ballads, I give _Ingeborg's
Disguise_ in full. The entire series included in _The Return of the Dead
and Other Ballads_ ranks among the most uniformly successful of Borrow's
achievements in this particular branch of literature:--

_INGEBORG'S DISGUISE_ {161}

_Such handsome court clothes the proud Ingeborg buys_,
_Says she_, "_I'll myself as a courtier disguise_."

_Proud Ingeborg hastens her steed to bestride_,
_Says she_, "_I'll away with the King to reside_."

"_Thou gallant young King to my speech lend an ear_,
_Hast thou any need of my services here_?"

"_O yes_, _my sweet lad_, _of a horseboy I've need_,
_If there were but stable room here for his steed_.

"_But thy steed in the stall with my own can be tied_,
_And thou_ '_neath the linen shalt sleep by my side_."

_Three years in the pal