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The Works of Thomas Love Peacock
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)
1.
VOLUME ONE HEADLONG HALL
2.
VOLUME TWO MELINCOURT
3.
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]
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VOLUME FOUR THE MISFORTUNES OF ELPHIN AND CROTCHET CASTLE
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VOLUME FIVE GRYLL GRANGE
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VOLUME SIX POEMS
7.
VOLUME SEVEN POEMS AND PLAYS
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[The love that follows fain]
The love that follows fain
Will never its faith betray:
But the faith that is held in a chain
Will never be found again,
If a single link give way.
The Works of Thomas Love Peacock
