"There shall nae mantle cross my back,[L33] Nor kame gae in my hair, Neither shall coal nor candle light 35 Shine in my bower mair; Nor shall I chuse anither love, Until the day I die, Since the lowlands of Holland Hae twinn'd my love and me." 40 "O haud your tongue, my daughter dear, Be still, and be content; There are mair lads in Galloway, Ye need nae sair lament." "O there is nane in Galloway,[L45] 45 There's nane at a' for me; For I never loved a lad but ane, And he's drowned in the sea." 33-36, 45-48. With the conclusion of this piece may be compared a passage from _Bonny Bee-Ho'm_, vol. iii. p. 57. "Ohon, alas! what shall I do, Tormented night and day! I never loved a love but ane, And now he's gone away. "But I will do for my true love What ladies would think sair; For seven years shall come and gae, Ere a kaime gae in my hair. "There shall neither a shoe gae on my foot, Nor a kaime gae in my hair, Nor ever a coal or candle light Shine in my bower nae mair." See also _The Weary Coble o' Cargill_. BOOK III. THE TWA BROTHERS. From Jamieson's _Popular Ballads_, i. 59. The ballad of the _Twa Brothers_, like many of the domestic tragedies with which it is grouped in this volume, is by no means the peculiar property of the island of Great Britain. It finds an exact counterpart in the Swedish ballad _Sven i Rosengård_, _Svenska F. V._, No. 67, Arwidsson, No. 87, A, B, which, together with a Finnish version of the same story, thought to be derived from the Swedish, will be found translated in our Appendix. _Edward_, in Percy's _Reliques_, has the same general theme, with the difference that a father is murdered instead of a brother. Motherwell[C] has printed a ballad (_Son Davie_) closely agreeing with _Edward_, except that the crime is again fratricide. He has also furnished another version of _The Twa Brothers_, in which the catastrophe is the consequence of an accident, and this circumstance has led the excellent editor to tax Jamieson with altering one of the most essential features of the ballad, by filling out a defective stanza with four lines that make one brother to have slain the other in a quarrel. Jamieson is, however, justified in giving this more melancholy character to the story, by the tenor of all the kindred pieces, and by the language of his own. It will be observed that both in _Edward_ and _Son Davie_, the wicked act was not only deliberate, but was even instigated by the mother. The departure from the original is undoubtedly on the part of Motherwell's copy, which has softened down a shocking incident to accommodate a modern and refined sentiment. But Jamieson is artistically, as well as critically right, since the effect of the contrast of the remorse of