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The Old Man and his Three Sons
SIR LIONEL—E
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a. Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England, edited by Robert Bell, p. 250. b. Mr Robert White's papers.
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There was an old man and sons he had three;Wind well, Lion, good hunter
A friar he being one of the three,
With pleasure he ranged the north country.
For he was a jovial hunter
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As he went to the woods some pastime to see,He spied a fair lady under a tree,
Sighing and moaning mournfully.
He was, etc.
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‘What are you doing, my fair lady?’‘I'm frightened the wild boar he will kill me;
He has worried my lord and wounded thirty.’
As thou art, etc.
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Then the friar he put his horn to his mouth,And he blew a blast, east, west, north and south,
And the wild boar from his den he came forth.
Unto the, etc.
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