.
The completed _Epigram_ is as follows:--

_So much like a friend with your foe ever deal_,
_That you never need dread the least scratch from his
steel_;
_But ne'er with your friend deal so much like a foe_,
_That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow_.

The original Manuscript of _Little Engel_, written in 1829, is in the
library of Mr. Edmund Gosse. The Manuscript of 1854, from which the
ballad was printed, is in my own library.

There is a copy of _Little Engel_, _A Ballad_, &c., in the Library of the
British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.

[Picture: Title page of Little Engel]

(42) [ALF THE FREEBOOTER: 1913]

Alf the Freebooter / Little Danneved and / Swayne Trost / and Other
Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation
/ 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page, as above (with a note regarding the
American copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3-4; and Text of
the _Ballads_ pp. 5-27. There are headlines throughout, each page being
headed with the title of the particular _Ballad_ occupying it. Upon the
reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint, "_London_: / _Printed for
Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to Thirty
Copies_." The signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of 2 leaves), B (a
half-sheet of 4 leaves), and _C_ (a full sheet of 8 leaves), all inset
within each other.

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

SIR ALF THE FREEBOOTER. [_Sir Alf he is an Atheling_.] 5

LITTLE DANNEVED AND SWAYNE TROST. ["_O what shall I in 14
Denmark do_?"]

SIR PALL, SIR BEAR, AND SIR LIDEN. [_Liden he rode to 20
the Ting_, _and shewed_]

BELARDO'S WEDDING. [_From the banks_, _in mornings 23
beam_]

THE YEW TREE. [_O tree of yew_, _which here I spy_] 27

Two earlier versions of this Ode were printed by Borrow
in _Wild Wales_, vol. iii, pp. 203 and 247. The texts of
all three versions differ very considerably.

There is a copy of _Alf the Freebooter and Other Ba