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

Then follow, oh follow! the hounds do cry:
The red sun flames in the eastern sky:
The stag bounds over the hollow.
He that lingers in spirit, or loiters in hall,
Shall see us no more till the evening fall,
And no voice but the echo shall answer his call:
Then follow, oh follow, follow:
Follow, oh follow, follow!

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