"O whair gat thou these targats, Johnie, 105 That blink sae brawly abune thy brie?" "I gat them in the field fechting, Wher, cruel King, thou durst not be. "Had I my horse, and harness gude, And ryding as I wont to be, 110 It sould haif bene tald this hundred yeir, The meiting of my King and me! "God be withee, Kirsty, my brither, Lang live thou Laird of Mangertoun! Lang mayst thou live on the Border syde, 115 Or thou se thy brither ryde up and doun. "And God be withee, Kirsty, my son, Whair thou sits on thy nursees knee! But and thou live this hundred yeir, Thy fathers better thou'lt never be. 120 Farweil, my bonny Gilnock-Hall, Whair on Esk syde thou standest stout! Gif I had leived but seven yeirs mair, I wald haif gilt thee round about." John murdred was at Carlinrigg, 125 And all his galant companie; But Scotlands heart was never sae wae, To see sae mony brave men die. Because they savd their country deir Frae Englishmen: nane were sae bauld, 130 Whyle Johnie livd on the Border syde, Nane of them durst cum neir his hald. 17. Langum hown. 30. thou mayst sune. HUGHIE GRAHAM. Of the two editions of this ballad which follow, the first is taken from _The Scots Musical Museum_ (p. 312), to which it was contributed by Burns. Burns states that he obtained his copy from oral tradition in Ayrshire, but he had certainly retouched several stanzas (the ninth and tenth, says Cromek), and the third and eighth are entirely of his composition. The other copy is from the _Border Minstrelsy_, and consists of a version "long current in Selkirkshire" (procured for Scott by Mr. William Laidlaw), which also has been slightly improved by the pen of the editor. In the Appendix we have placed the story as it occurs in Durfey's _Pills to purge Melancholy_, and in Ritson's _Ancient Songs_. The seventeenth volume of the Percy Society Publications furnishes us with a Scottish version in which Sir Hugh is rescued and sent over the sea: _Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads_, p. 73. These, we believe, are all the published forms of this ballad, unless we mention Mr. Allan Cunningham's _r['e]chauff['e]_ of Burns, in his _Songs of Scotland_, i. 327.