"O lead me over into yon stile," _Fine flowers i' the valley_, 70 "That I may stop and breathe awhile," _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. "O lead me over into yon stair," _Fine flowers i' the valley_, "For there I'll lie and bleed nae mair," 75 _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. "O what will you leave to your father dear?" _Fine flowers i' the valley_; "The siller-shod steed that brought me here," _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. 80 "What will you leave to your mother dear?" _Fine flowers i' the valley_; "My velvet pall, and my pearlin' gear," _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. "What will you leave to your sister Ann?" 85 _Fine flowers i' the valley_; "My silken gown that stands its lane," _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. "What will you leave to your sister Grace?" _Fine flowers i' the valley_; 90 "My bluidy shirt to wash and dress," _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. "What will you leave to your brother John?" _Fine flowers i' the valley_; "The gates o' hell to let him in," 95 _Wi' the red, green, and the yellow_. LADY ANNE. From _Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border_, iii. 18. "This ballad was communicated to me by Mr. Kirkpatrick Sharpe of Hoddom, who mentions having copied it from an old magazine. Although it has probably received some modern corrections, the general turn seems to be ancient, and corresponds with that of a fragment which I have often heard sung in my childhood." The version to which Sir Walter Scott refers, and part of which he proceeds to quote, had been printed in Johnson's _Museum_. It is placed immediately after the present, with other copies of the ballad from Motherwell and Kinloch. In Buchan's _Ballads of the North of Scotland_ there are two more, which are repeated with slight variations in the XVII. Vol. of the Percy Society, p. 46, p. 50. Both will be found in the Appendix. The copy in Buchan's _Gleanings_, p. 90, seems to be taken from Scott. Smith's _Scottish Minstrel_, iv. 33, affords still another variety. In German, _Die Kindesmörderin_, Erk's _Liederhort_, No. 41, five copies; Erlach, iv. 148; Hoffmann, _Schlesische V. L._, No. 31, 32; _Wunderhorn_, ii. 202; Zuccalmaglio, No. 97; Meinert, No. 81; Simrock, p. 87. (But some of these are repetitions.) Wendish, Haupt and Schmaler, I. No. 292, and with considerable differences, I. No. 290, II. 197. This last reference is taken from Grundtvig, ii. 531. Fair Lady Anne sate in her bower, Down by the greenwood side, And the flowers did spring, and the birds did sing, 'Twas the pleasant May-day tide.