With full assurance took his flight,
Unto that sweet delicious coast,
Where hope is in fruition lost.
AN EXCELLENT BALLAD
On the Sickness, Death, and Burial, OF ECKY’s MARE;
Which was made and composed by the late ancient and famous Northern poet, Mr Bernard Rumney, a musician, or country fidler, who lived and died at Rothbury, being about one hundred years old at the time of his death.
Wold you please to hear of a sang of dule,
Of yea sad chance and pittifow case,
Makes the peur man powt through many a pule,
And leuk on mony an unkend face?