Book is in 2 vols.; vol. 2 is vii + 375 + [8] pp. This poem appears on p. [5] of the unpaginated advertisement section at the end of vol. 2.

A slightly revised form of an 8-line verse translation of Beowulf, ll. 1386-89, that was originally published in 1835 under the title "The Words of Beowulf, Son of Egtheof." Here in The Romany Rye, the poem is untitled. It is presented as a specimen of a projected collection by Borrow, to be titled Northern Skalds, Kings, and Earls, which never appeared.

The poem reads in its entirety:

"Every one beneath the heaven
     Should of death expect the day;
And let him whilst life is given
     Bright with fame his name array.

"For, amongst the countless number,
     In the clay-cold grave at rest,
Lock'd in arms of iron slumber,
     Him I call most truly blest."
                                                     BEOWULF.

Not in Fry, GR, MO1, or MO2.

BAM, from 2nd ed. (1858). The presence in the 1857 1st ed. of the advertisement in which "The Words of Beowulf" appears is affirmed by Thomas J. Wise, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow (London: privately printed by Richard Clay & Sons, 1914), 90–91; in the copies of the 1st ed. that I have seen, the advertisement has been removed during binding.