Hotspur: A BALLAD;
In the Manner of the Ancient Minstrels.

BY MR WILLIAM RICHARDSON.

The lady sat in leafy bow’r,

Near Royal Sheene’s fair dome;

The Harper, journeying, westward went,

Far, far from friends and home.

His lyre, in grass-green satchel plac’d,

Hung graceful by his side;