{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch284.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch284.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch284.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends & Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n \n 284A: John Dory\n \n \n 284A.1 As it fell on a holy-day,\n And vpon an holy-tide-a,\n Iohn Dory bought him an ambling nag,\n To Paris for to ride-a.\n 284A.2 And when John Dory to Paris was come,\n A little before the gate-a,\n John Dory was fitted, the porter was witted\n To let him in thereat-a.\n 284A.3 The first man that John Dory did meet\n Was good king John of France-a;\n John Dory could well of his courtesie,\n But fell downe in a trance-a.\n 284A.4 \u2018A pardon, a pardon, my liege and my king,\n For my merie men and for me-a,\n And all the churles in merie England,\n I\u2019le bring them all bound to thee-a.\u2019\n 284A.5 And Nicholl was then a Cornish man,\n A little beside Bohide-a,\n And he mande forth a good blacke barke,\n With fiftie good oares on a side-a.\n 284A.6 \u2018Run vp, my boy, vnto the maine top,\n And looke what thou canst spie-a:\u2019\n \u2018Who ho! who ho! a goodly ship I do see,\n I trow it be John Dory[-a\u2019]\n 284A.7 They hoist their sailes, both top and top,\n The meisseine and all was tride-a,\n And euery man stood to his lot,\n What euer should betide-a.\n 284A.8 The roring cannons then were plide,\n And dub-a-dub went the drumme-a;\n The braying trumpets lowde they cride\n To courage both all and some-a.\n 284A.9 The grappling-hooks were brought at length,\n The browne bill and the sword-a,\n John Dory at length, for all his strength,\n Was clapt fast vnder board-a.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Next: 285. The George Aloe and the Sweepstake","title":"The Child Ballads: 284. John Dory","type":"page"}