Mirth and metre

by Frank E. Smedley; Edmund Yates

Frank E. Smedley.
Edmund H. Yates.

CONTENTS.

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MAUDE ALLINGHAME; A LEGEND OF HERTFORDSHIRE. BY FRANK E. SMEDLEY	[1]
“YE RIGHT ANCIENT BALLAD OF YE COMBAT OF KING TIDRICH WITH YE DRAGON.” BY FRANK E. SMEDLEY	[23]
ST. MICHAEL’S EVE. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[31]
THE KING OF THE CATS; A RHINE LEGEND. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[38]
THE LAPWING. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[43]
THE ENCHANTED NET. BY FRANK E. SMEDLEY	[45]
A FYTTE OF THE BLUES. BY FRANK E. SMEDLEY	[53]
THE FORFEIT HAND; A LEGEND OF BRABANT. BY FRANK E. SMEDLEY	[55]
SIR RUPERT THE RED. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[71]
COUNT LOUIS OF TOULOUSE. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[82]
ANNIE LYLE. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[84]
JACK RASPER’S WAGER; OR, “NE SUTOR ULTRA CREPIDAM.” BY EDMUND H. YATES	[86]
THE OVERFLOWINGS OF THE LATE PELLUCID RIVERS, ESQ. BY EDMUND H. YATES	[94]

MIRTH AND METRE.

MAUDE ALLINGHAME;
A LEGEND OF HERTFORDSHIRE.[1]

Part the First.

There is weeping and wailing in Allinghame Hall,

From many an eye does the tear-drop fall,

Swollen with sorrow is many a lip,