The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
1^3. To leave your father's families.
1^4. And follow... frae the.
2^1. I am a gay ladie.
2^2. wear.
2^3. father's castle.
3^{1, 3} stands.
3^2. Says I am boon to ride.
3^4. Says I'll run by your side.
4^1. He has mounted on his berry brown steed.
4^3. She's clad her in a page's weed.
4^4. And ay as fast.
5^2. An folks.
5^3. He's lookd oer.
5^4. Says Ellen will you ride.
6^1. O I learnd it when I was a bairn.
7^1, 8^1, 9^1. that ladie.
7^2. It was aboon her knee.
7^3. Says Bird Ellen.
8^2. It was up till.
8^3. Ohon alas says Bird Ellen.
9^1. The thirden step.
9^2. touched her pap.
9^3. The bairn between her sides twa.
9^4. begood to.
10^2. You gie your mother pain.
10^4. And cares little for us twain.
11^1. O _wanting_. Clyde's.
11^2. There stands.
11^3. He has turnd about his berry brown steed.
11^4. And taen her up him behind.
12^4. Where this night you mean to be.
13^1. Do not ye see.
13^2. so far and hie.
13^3. ladie there, he says.
14.
Altho there be a ladie there,
Should sunder you and me,
Betide my life, betide my death,
I will go thither and see.
15^2, 16^2. brown.
15^3. Then you will.
15^4. That ever you lovd a man.
16^1. O 'tis I shall.
16^{3, 4}.
But I neer shall live to cry alas,
That ever I lovd a man.
17^{1, 2}.
My horse shall eat the baken meat,
And you shall eat the corn.
17^3. You then will.
18^1. O I shall eat the baken meat.
18^3. And I still shall bless.
20^4. her lane.
21^2. a' were.
22==#a# 23. ^3. O I can neither eat nor drink.
23==#a# 22. ^3. O I can neither eat nor drink.
24^{3, 4}.
My son, where gat ye that foot-page
You have brought hame to me?
25^1. cheeks look.
25^2. pale and wan.
25^3. He looks mair like a ladie wi bairn.
26.
He has looked oer his left shoulder,
And a loud laugh laughed he;
Says, He's a squire's ae dear son,
I got in the north countrie.
27^1. Win up, win up.
27^3. And so.
27^4. As fast as ever I may.
28^{2-4}.
And the corn in her right hand,
And she's hied her to the stable-door,
As fast as she could gang.
29^2. Stand nearer to.
29^3. between my sides.
30^{1, 2}.
She has leand to the manger side
And gien a grieveous groan.
30^4. brought home a son.
31==#a# 31, 32.
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