By Saint Dunstan, Saint Alfred, Saint Withold, and all the good men in the Saxon calendar, it doth make me mad to see such gay lordlings from over the sea go stepping on the necks of good Saxons who owned this land before ever their great-grandsires chewed rind of brawn!

" Thereupon, clearing his throat, the Tanner, without more ado, began to sing: THE WOOING OF SIR KEITH "King Arthur sat in his royal hall, And about on either hand Was many a noble lordling tall, The greatest in the land.

lordling's honour, there; Here native sweets in boon profusion flow There smells that scented nothing of a beau; Let justice here unequal combat wage Nor poise the judgment of the law-learned sage; Though all-proportioned with exactest skill, Yet gay as woman's wish, and various as her will.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God.' And certes in fair virtue's heavenly road, The cottage leaves the palace far behind: What is a lordling's pomp?

The title of the Ballads are Bishop Thurston, and the King of Scots, Battle of Caton Moor, Murder of Prince Arthur, Prince Edward, and Adam Gordon, Cumner Hall, Arabella Stuart, Anna Bullen, the Lady and the Palmer, The Fair Maniac, The Bridal Bed, The Lordling Peasant, The Red Cross Knight, The Wandering Maid, The Triumph of Death, Julia, The Fruits of Jealousy, and The Death of Allen.

" "Well," said Sir Launcelot, "that is a pity and I am sorry for that noble lordling.

" As they marshalled him to the castle hall, the guests stood aside, and again the trumpets flourished, and the heralds cried: "'Room, lordlings, room for Lord Marmion, With the crest and helm of gold!

I here forsake the tuneful trade, Where none but lordlings now are paid, Or where some northern rogue sits puling, (The curse of universal schooling)

160 Safe from the road, untainted by the school, A judge by birth, by destiny a fool, While the young lordling struts in native pride, His party-colour'd tutor by his side, Pleased, let me own the pious mother's care, Who to the brawny sire commits her heir.

As yet, art triumphs, and here the lordlings of wealth may enjoy otium cum dignitate: but in a few years Nature may enable this domain to vie with Daphne of old, and become to London what Daphne was to Antioch, whose voluptuousness and luxury are perpetuated in history.

Listen, oh lordlings, to the words of Marie, for she pains herself grievously not to forget this thing.

be ye lordling or lowlier born, once more turn back to the engraving.

A British lordling put it into his head, away out in Delhi.

As swallows shrink before the wintry blast, And gladly seek a more congenial soil, So flatterers halt when fortune's lure is past, And basely court some richer lordling's smile.

Again: "Thenceforward will men, there labouring hard and honourably, be looked down upon by dronish lordlings.

You would not have a 'hapless lordling' talk about science or metaphysics while he danced, would you?"

Tory squires and lordlings have defied the people and measured their strength against the masses.