The Works of Thomas Love Peacock

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)

VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL

VOLUME TWO MELINCOURT

VOLUME THREE NIGHTMARE ABBEY AND MAID MARIAN

NIGHTMARE ABBEY

MAID MARIAN.

[“The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble]

[The courtly pad doth amble]

[But wherefore does the sheep wear wool?]

[The rose on the nose doth all virtues disclose]

[The damsel stood to watch the fight]

[For the slender beech and the sapling oak]

[The love that follows fain]

[For hark! hark! hark!]

[Then follow, oh follow! the hounds do cry]

[Though I be now a grey, grey friar]

[An archer keen I was withal]

[A staff, a staff, of a young oak graff]

[Drink and sing, and eat and laugh]

[For I must seek some hermit cell]

[Oh! bold Robin Hood is a forester good]

[Bold Robin has robed him in ghostly attire]

[Over, over, over, jolly, jolly rover]

[A damsel came in midnight rain]

[It was a friar of orders free]

[When the wind blows, when the wind blows]

[Ye woods, that oft at sultry noon]

VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE

VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE

VOLUME SIX POEMS

VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS

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[The courtly pad doth amble]

The courtly pad doth amble,
When his gay lord would ramble:
But both may catch
An awkward scratch,
If they ride among the bramble:
The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble.”

University of Virginia Library

[The courtly pad doth amble]