51 'Forgiue, forgiue me, queene, Madam! For Christs loue forgiue me!' 'God forgaue his death, Aldingar, And freely I forgiue thee.' 52 'Now take thy wife, thou K_ing_ Harry, And loue her as thou shold; Thy wiffe shee is as true to thee As stone _tha_t lies on the castle wall.' 53 The lazar vnder the gallow tree Was a pretty man and small; The lazar vnder the gallow tree Was made steward in K_ing_ Henerys hall. B Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, III, 51, 1803. Communicated to Scott by K. Williamson Burnet, of Monboddo, as written down from the recitation of an old woman, long in the service of the Arbuthnot family. 1 The birds sang sweet as ony bell, The world had not their make; The queen she's gone to her chamber, With Rodingham to talk. 2 'I love you well, my queen, my dame, Bove land and rents so clear, And for the love of you, my queen, Would thole pain most severe.' 3 'If well you love me, Rodingham, I'm sure so do I thee; I love you well as any man, Save the king's fair bodye.' 4 'I love you well, my queen, my dame, 'T is truth that I do tell; And for to lye a night with you, The salt seas I would sail.' 5 'Away, away, O Rodingham! You are both stark and stoor; Would you defile the king's own bed, And make his queen a whore? 6 'To-morrow you'd be taken sure, And like a traitor slain, And I'd be burned at a stake, Altho I be the queen.' 7 He then steppd out at her room-door, All in an angry mood, Untill he met a leper-man, Just by the hard way-side. 8 He intoxicate the leper-man, With liquors very sweet, And gave him more and more to drink, Until he fell asleep. 9 He took him in his arms two, And carried him along, Till he came to the queen's own bed, And there he laid him down. 10 He then steppd out of the queen's bower, As swift as any roe, Till he came to the very place Where the king himself did go. 11 The king said unto Rodingham, What news have you to me? He said, Your queen's a false woman, As I did plainly see. 12 He hastend to the queen's chamber, So costly and so fine, Until he came to the queen's own bed, Where the leper-man was lain. 13 He looked on the leper-man, Who lay on his queen's bed; He lifted up the snaw-white sheets, And thus he to him said. 14 'Plooky, plooky are your cheeks, And plooky is your chin, And plooky are your armis twa, My bonny queen's layne in. 15 'Since she has lain into your arms, She shall not lye in mine; Since she has kissd your ugsome mouth, She never shall kiss mine.'