But going down in a low glen, She met wi' Duncan Gr[ae]me, Who courted her along the way, 15 Likewise convoyed her hame. "My bonny Lizie Baillie, I'll row you in my plaidie, If ye'll gang ower the hills wi' me, And be a Highland ladie." 20 "I winna gang alang wi' you; Indeed I maun confess, I can neither milk cow nor ewe, Nor yet can I speak Earse." "O never fear, Lizie," he said, 25 "If ye will gang wi' me, All that is into my place, Can speak as gude Scotch as thee. "But for a time we now maun part; I hinna time to tarry; 30 Next when we twa meet again, Will be in Castlecarry." When Lizie tarried out her time, Unto her father's came, The very first night she arrived, 35 Wha comes but Duncan Gr[ae]me. Says, "Bonny Lizie Baillie, A gude deed mat ye die; Altho' to me ye brake your tryst, Now I am come for thee." 40 "O stay at hame," her father said, "Your mither cannot want thee; And gin ye gang awa' this night, We'll hae a Killycrankie." "My bonny Lizie Baillie, 45 O come to me without delay; O wou'd ye hae sae little wit, As mind what odd folks wad say?" She wou'dna hae the Lowlandman, That wears the coat sae blue; 50 But she wou'd hae the Highlandman, That wears the plaid and trews. Out it spake her mother then, A sorry heart had she; Says, "Wae be to his Highland face, 55 That's taen my lass frae me!" 8. The island of Inchmahome, in the Lake of Menteith. THE RARE BALLAD OF JOHNNIE FAA AND THE COUNTESS O'CASSILIS. See p. 114. From Sheldon's _Minstrelsy of the English Border_, p. 329. The editor (or author, as he styles himself, indifferently) of that audacious work, asserts that he has "heard this ballad sung repeatedly by Willie Faa," and has "endeavored to preserve as much of his version as recollection would allow." There were seven Gipsies in a gang, They were both brisk and bonny O, They rode till they came to the Earl of Castle's house, And there they sung so sweetly O. The Earl of Castle's lady came down, 5 With her waiting maid beside her O; As soon as her handsome face they saw, They cast the glamour o'er her O. They gave to her a nutmeg brown, Which was of the belinger O; 10 She gave to them a far better thing, The ring from off her finger O.