24. ‘Go saddle to me the black, [the black,] Go saddle to me the brown, Go saddle to me the swiftest steed That e’er rid [to] Wallington.’ 25. When they came to Wallington, And into Wallington hall, There she spy’d her son Fenwick, Walking about the wall. 26. ‘God save you, dear son, Lord may your keeper be! Where is my daughter fair, That used to walk with thee?’ 27. He turn’d his head round about, The tears did fill his e’e: ‘’Tis a month’ he said, ‘since she Took her chambers from me.’ 28. She went on . . . And there were in the hall Four and twenty ladies, Letting the tears down fall. 29. Her daughter had a scope Into her cheek and into her chin, All to keep her life Till her dear mother came. 30. ‘Come take the rings off my fingers, The skin it is so white, And give them to my mother dear, For she was all the wite. 31. ‘Come take the rings off my fingers, The veins they are so red, Give them to Sir William Fenwick, I’m sure his heart will bleed.’ 32. She took out a razor That was both sharp and fine, And out of her left side has taken The heir of Wallington. 33. There is a race in Wallington, And that I rue full sare; Tho’ the cradle it be full spread up The bride-bed is left bare. [Annotations: 1.1: ‘silly,’ simple. 1.4: ‘lair,’ lying-in. 2.4: ‘gate,’ way. 5.3: ‘her mother’ is, of course, her mother-in-law. 9.2: ‘shun’ = shoon, shoes. 13: This stanza is not in the original, but is supplied from the boy’s repetition, st. 19. 13.4: ‘lake-wake’ = lyke-wake: watching by a corpse. 22: This, in ballads, is a customary method of giving expression to strong emotion. 29.1: ‘scope,’ a gag. 30.4: ‘wite,’ blame: _i.e._ her mother was the cause of all her trouble.] END OF THE FIRST SERIES INDEX OF TITLES Page Barbara Allan 150 Brown Adam 100 Brown Robin 158 Child Maurice 165 Child Waters 37 Earl Brand 44 Edward 189 Fair Annie 29 Fair Annie of Rough Royal 179 Fair Janet 94 Fair Margaret and Sweet William 63 Fair Mary of Wallington 201 Fause Footrage 172 Glasgerion 1 Hind Horn 185 Johney Scot 128