Excerpt from Old Ballads, Vol. 4: Historical and Narrative, With Some of Modern Date; Now First Collected and Reprinted From Rare Copies and Mss; With Notes Give me to know thy' dawn of life Unfold, with firnple truth, Not to thy mailer, but thy friend, The promife of thy youth. Now late in life, as time I ween, To give thy labours o'er; Thy well-worn implements lay by, And drudge and toil no more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.