4. She’s gi’en to him a diamond ring, With seven bright diamonds set therein. 5. ‘When this ring grows pale and wan, You may know by it my love is gane.’ 6. One day as he looked his ring upon, He saw the diamonds pale and wan. 7. He left the sea and came to land, And the first that he met was an old beggar man. 8. ‘What news, what news?’ said young Hind Horn; ‘No news, no news,’ said the old beggar man. 9. ‘No news,’ said the beggar, ‘no news at a’, But there is a wedding in the king’s ha’. 10. ‘But there is a wedding in the king’s ha’, That has halden these forty days and twa.’ 11. ‘Will ye lend me your begging coat? And I’ll lend you my scarlet cloak. 12. ‘Will you lend me your beggar’s rung? And I’ll gi’e you my steed to ride upon. 13. ’Will you lend me your wig o’ hair, To cover mine, because it is fair?’ 14. The auld beggar man was bound for the mill, But young Hind Horn for the king’s hall. 15. The auld beggar man was bound for to ride, But young Hind Horn was bound for the bride. 16. When he came to the king’s gate, He sought a drink for Hind Horn’s sake. 17. The bride came down with a glass of wine, When he drank out the glass, and dropt in the ring. 18. ‘O got ye this by sea or land? Or got ye it off a dead man’s hand?’ 19. ‘I got not it by sea, I got it by land, And I got it, madam, out of your own hand.’ 20. ‘O I’ll cast off my gowns of brown, And beg wi’ you frae town to town. 21. ‘O I’ll cast off my gowns of red, And I’ll beg wi’ you to win my bread.’ 22. ‘Ye needna cast off your gowns of brown, For I’ll make you lady o’ many a town. 23. ‘Ye needna cast off your gowns of red, It’s only a sham, the begging o’ my bread.’ 24. The bridegroom he had wedded the bride, But young Hind Horn he took her to bed. [Footnote A: After stanza 2 there is a gap in the story. Other versions say that Hind Horn goes, or is sent, to sea.] [Annotations: 10.2: The bride has lingered six weeks in hopes of Hind Horn’s return. 12.1: ‘rung,’ staff.] EDWARD +The Text+ is that given by Percy in the _Reliques_ (1765), with the substitution of _w_ for initial _qu_, and _y_ for initial _z_, as in _Young Waters_ (see p. 146). In the fourth edition of the _Reliques_ Percy states that ‘this curious song was transmitted to the editor by Sir David Dalrymple, Bart., late Lord Hailes.’ Percy’s adoption of antique spelling in this ballad has caused some doubt to be thrown on its authenticity; but there is also a version _Son Davie_, given in his _Minstrelsy_ by Motherwell, who, in referring to the version in the _Reliques_, said there was reason for believing that Lord Hailes ‘made a few slight verbal improvements in the copy he transmitted, and altered the hero’s name to Edward, a name which, by the bye, never occurs in a Scottish ballad except where allusion is made to an English king.’