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Editor: Bates, Katherine Lee, 1859-1929


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Drinking the blude-red wine; "O whaur shall I get a skeely skipper, To sail this gude ship of mine?" Then up an' spake an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee; "Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea." The King has written a braid letter, And seal'd it wi' his hand, And sent it to Sir Patrick Spens Was walking on the sand. "To Noroway, to Noroway, To Noroway o'er the faem; The King's daughter to Noroway, It's thou maun tak' her hame." The first line that Sir Patrick read, A loud laugh laughed he, The neist line that Sir Patrick read, The tear blinded his e'e. "O wha is this hae dune this deed,
Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS EDITED WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS BY MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A. _Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin_ _Editor of Prose Literature for Secondary Schools_ BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
And tauld the King o' me, To send us out at this time o' the year To sail upon the sea? "Be it wind or weet, be it hail or sleet, Our ship maun sail the faem, The King's daughter to Noroway, 'Tis we maun tak' her hame." They hoisted their sails on Monday morn, Wi' a' the speed they may; And they hae landed in Noroway Upon the Wodensday. They hadna been a week, a week, In Noroway but twae, When that the lords o' Noroway Began aloud to say-- "Ye Scotsmen spend a' our King's gowd, And a' our Queenis fee." "Ye lie, ye lie, ye liars loud, Sae loud's I hear ye lie! "For I brouct as mickle white monie, As gane my men and me,