(i.) The Ancient Songs of Denmark, heroic and romantic, translated
by himself, with notes philological, critical and historical.

(ii.) The Songs of Ab Gwilym, the Welsh Bard, also translated by
himself, with notes critical, philological and historical. {41a}

(iii.) A romance in the German style.


In addition to his manuscripts, Borrow had some twenty or thirty
pounds, his testimonials, and a letter from William Taylor to Sir
Richard Phillips, the publisher, to whose New Magazine he had already
contributed a number of translations of poems. He had also printed
in The Monthly Magazine and The New Monthly Magazine translations of
verse from the German, Swedish, Dutch, Danish and Spanish, and an
essay on Danish ballad writing.

On the morning of 2nd April there arrived at 16 Milman Street,
Bedford Row, London, W.C.,


"A lad who twenty tongues can talk,
And sixty miles a day can walk;
Drink at a draught a pint of rum,
And then be neither sick nor dumb;
Can tune a song and make a verse,
And deeds of Northern kings rehearse;
Who never will forsake his friend