Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
SIGNELIL
a tale from the cornish
and other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
SIGNELIL
The Lady her handmaid to questioning took:
“Why dost thou so sickly and colourless look?”
But sorrow gnaws so sorely!
“’Tis little wonder if sickly I’m growing,
Malfred my lady!
So much am I busied with cutting and sewing.”
“Erewhile was thy cheek as the blooming rose red,
But now thou art pale, even pale as the dead.”
“To conceal the truth longer ’tis vain to essay,
My gallant young master has led me astray.”