The first an' step that she stepp'd in, She stepped to the queet; "Ohon, alas!" said that lady, 105 "This water's wond'rous deep." The next an' step that she wade in, She wadit to the knee; Says she, "I cou'd wide farther in, If I my love cou'd see." 110 The next an' step that she wade in, She wadit to the chin; The deepest pot in Clyde's water She got sweet Willie in. "You've had a cruel mither, Willie, 115 And I have had anither; But we shall sleep in Clyde's water, Like sister an' like brither." 39, 40. Found also in _Leander on the Bay_, and taken from the epigram of Martial: "Clamabat tumidis audax Leander in undis, Mergite me fluctus, cum rediturus ero." WILLIE'S DROWNED IN GAMERY. From Buchan's _Ballads of the North of Scotland_, i. 245. A fragment, exhibiting some differences, is among those ballads of Buchan which are published in the Percy Society's volumes, xvii. 66. Four stanzas, of a superior cast, upon the same story, are printed in the _Tea-Table Miscellany_, (ii. 141.) _Rare Willy drown'd in Yarrow._ "Willy's rare, and Willy's fair, And Willy's wond'rous bonny; And Willy heght to marry me, Gin e'er he married ony. "Yestreen I made my bed fu' braid, This night I'll make it narrow; For a' the livelang winter night I ly twin'd of my marrow. "O came you by yon water-side? Pou'd you the rose or lilly? Or came you by yon meadow green? Or saw you my sweet Willy?" She sought him east, she sought him west, She sought him braid and narrow; Syne in the cleaving of a craig, She found him drown'd in Yarrow. These stanzas furnished the theme to Logan's _Braes of Yarrow_. "O Willie is fair, and Willie is rare, And Willie is wond'rous bonny; And Willie says he'll marry me, Gin ever he marry ony." "O ye'se get James, or ye'se get George, 5 Or ye's get bonny Johnnie; Ye'se get the flower o' a' my sons, Gin ye'll forsake my Willie." "O what care I for James or George, Or yet for bonny Peter? 10 I dinna value their love a leek, An' I getna Willie the writer." "O Willie has a bonny hand, And dear but it is bonny;" "He has nae mair for a' his land; 15 What wou'd ye do wi' Willie?" "O Willie has a bonny face, And dear but it is bonny;" "But Willie has nae other grace; What wou'd ye do wi' Willie?" 20 "Willie's fair, and Willie's rare, And Willie's wond'rous bonny; There's nane wi' him that can compare, I love him best of ony."