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r's possession. There is a copy of _Letters to his Mother_, _Ann Borrow_, in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 57. e. 46. (58) [THE BROTHER AVENGED: 1913] The Brother Avenged / and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913. Collation:--Square demy octavo, pp. 32; 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. 5-32. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. At the foot of p. 32 is the following imprint: "_London_: / _Printed for Thomas J. Wise_, _Hampstead_, _N.W._ / _Edition limited to Thirty Copies_." The signatures are A and B (two sheets, each eight leaves), the one inset within the 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 THE BROTHER AVENGED. [_I stood before my master's 5 board_] Previously printed (with some textual variations) in _The Foreign Quarterly Review_, vol. vi, _June_ 1830, pp 61-62. THE EYES. {268} [_To kiss a pair of red lips small_] 9 HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGITON. [_With the leaves of the 12 myrtle I'll cover my brand_] MY DAINTY DAME. [_My dainty Dame_, _my heart's delight_] 14 GRASACH ABO OR THE CAUSE OF GRACE. [_O_, _Baillie Na 16 Cortie_! _thy turrets are tall_] DAGMAR. [_Sick in Ribe Dagmar's lying_] 19 THE ELF BRIDE. [_There was a youthful swain one day_] 21 These stanzas should be compared with _The Elves_, printed in _The Nightingale_, _The Valkyrie and Raven_, _and Other Ballads_, 1913, pp. 25-26. THE TREASURE DIGGER. [_O_, _would that with last and 23 shoe I had stay'd_] THE FISHER. [_The fisherman saddleth his good winged 25 horse_] THE CUCKOO. [_Abiding an appointment made_] 29 _Note_.--Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first time in this volume. There is a
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