OTHERS. [_Dame Ingeborg three brave 18
brothers could boast_]

TURKISH HYMN TO MAHOMET. [_O Envoy of Allah_, _to thee 26
be salaam_]

_Note_.--Each poem to which no reference is attached appeared for the
first time in this volume.

There is a copy of _The Song of Deirdra_, _King Byrge and his Brothers_,
_and Other Ballads_ in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark
is C. 44. d. 38.

[Picture: Title page of King Byrge]

(51) [SIGNELIL: 1913]

Signelil / A Tale from the Cornish / and Other Ballads / By / George
Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 28; consisting of: Half-title (with
blank reverse) pp. 1-2; Title-page (with notice regarding the American
copyright upon the centre of the reverse) pp. 3-4; and Text of the
_Ballads_ pp. 5-28. There are head-lines throughout, each page being
headed with the title of the particular _Ballad_ occupying it. At the
foot of p. 28 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 two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four
leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight 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

SIGNELIL. [_The Lady her handmaid to questioning took_] 5

A TALE FROM THE CORNISH. [_In Lavan's parish once of 8
yore_]

Previously printed, with some trifling inaccuracies, in
Knapp's _Life_, _Writings_, _and Correspondence of George
Borrow_, 1899, vol. ii, pp. 91-95.

SIR VERNER AND DAME INGEBORG. [_In Linholm's house_ 19
_The swains they were drinking and making carouse_]

THE HEDDEBY SPECTRE. [_At evening fall I chanced to 22
ride_]

An earlier, and utterly different, version of this ballad
was printed (under the tentative title _The
Heddybee-Spectre_) in _Romantic Ballads_, 1826, pp.
37-39. Borrow afterwards described this earlier version
as "a paraphrase."

FROM GOUDELI. [_Yestere'en when the bat_, _and the owl_, 25
_and his ma