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HISTORY OF THE GIPSIES:

WITH

Specimens of the Gipsy Language,

BY WALTER SIMSON.

EDITED WITH

PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES, AND A DISQUISITION ON THE
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF GIPSYDOM.

BY JAMES SIMSON.

"Hast thou not noted on the bye way-side,
Where aged saughs lean o'er the lazy tide,
A vagrant crew, far straggled through the glade,
With trifles busied, or in slumber laid;
Their children lolling round them on the grass,
Or pestering with their sports the patient ass?
The wrinkled beldame there you may espy,
And ripe young maiden with the glossy eye;
Men in their prime, and striplings dark and dun,
Scathed by the storm and freckled with the sun;

Their swarthy hue and mantle's flowing fold,

Bespeak the remnant of a race of old,

Strange are their annals-list and mark them well-

For thou hast much to hear and I to tell."-HOGG.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, SON, AND MARSTON,
MILTON HOUSE, LUDGATE HILL,
EDINBURGH:-MENZIES.

1865.

[THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.]

223. j.17.

[ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.]

OTHE

WILLIAM HENRY COX,

PRINTER, 5, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.