"Cast out the ba' to me, fair maid, Cast out the ba' to me." 10 "Ah never a bit of it," she says, "Till ye come up to me. "Come up, sweet Hugh, come up, dear Hugh, Come up and get the ba';" "I winna come, I mayna come, 15 Without my bonny boys a'." "Come up, sweet Hugh, come up, dear Hugh, Come up and speak to me;" "I mayna come, I winna come, Without my bonny boys three." 20 She's taen her to the Jew's garden, Whar the grass grew lang and green, She's pu'd an apple red and white, To wyle the bonny boy in. She's wyled him in through ae chamber, 25 She's wyled him in through twa, She's wyled him in till her ain chamber, The flower out owr them a'. She's laid him on a dressin board, Whar she did often dine; 30 She stack a penknife to his heart, And dress'd him like a swine. She row'd him in a cake of lead, Bade him ly still and sleep, She threw him i' the Jew's draw-well, 35 It was fifty fathom deep. Whan bells were rung, and mass was sung, And a' man bound to bed, Every lady got home her son, But sweet Sir Hugh was dead. THE JEW'S DAUGHTER. From Percy's _Reliques_, i. 40; printed from a manuscript copy sent from Scotland. Mirryland toune is a corruption of Merry Lincoln, and not, as Percy conjectured, of Mailand (Milan) town. In Motherwell's copy we have Maitland town. The rain rins doun through Mirry-land toune, Sae dois it doune the Pa: Sae dois the lads of Mirry-land toune, Quhan they play at the ba'. Than out and cam the Jewis dochter, 5 Said, "Will ye cum in and dine?" "I winnae cum in, I cannae cum in, Without my play-feres nine." Scho powd an apple reid and white, To intice the zong thing in: 10 Scho powd an apple white and reid, And that the sweit bairne did win. And scho has taine out a little pen-knife, And low down by her gair; Scho has twin'd the zong thing and his life; 15 A word he nevir spak mair. And out and cam the thick thick bluid, And out and cam the thin; And out and cam the bonny herts bluid: Thair was nae life left in. 20 Scho laid him on a dressing borde, And drest him like a swine, And laughing said, "Gae nou and pley With zour sweit play-feres nine." Scho rowd him in a cake of lead, 25 Bade him lie stil and sleip; Scho cast him in a deip draw-well, Was fifty fadom deip.