The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
2^1. Now _wanting_.
2^2. nurse she was his layman.
3^2. where are you a.
3^3. I am going to some land.
3^4. For I am.
4^1. Where must: I turn.
4^2. I run.
4^3, 9^3. esquire.
4^4. And my friends are out to take me.
5^1. Go you.
5^2. There you’ll stay till the dawning.
5^4. I’ll come and pay your lawing.
6^1. down _wanting_.
6^2. To stay unto the dawning.
6^3. Now if you be a woman true.
6^4. [D] o (?) come and pay the lawning.
7^1. himself quite round.
7^3. he is.
8^1. not quite out.
8^2. _Wanting._
8^4. ore Beligham.
9^1. did you see.
9^2. That.
9^3. For _wanting_.
9^4. Who was sent.
10^1. Oh yes, I seed S. J. the R.
10^2. He passed by here.
10^3. His steed was: rid.
10^4. And past.
11^1. Just as.
11^2. They thought no more upon him.
11^3. Oh if you want S. J. the R.
12^2. And the: Belighan.
12^3. And _wanting_.
13 _as_ 14.
13^1. him from his.
13^2. you _wanting_.
13^3. But in his breast must run a dart.
14 _as_ 13.
14^2. And lowlands.
14^4. Lying sleeping.
15^1. up bespoke Sir James the Graham.
15^2. charge in.
15^3. Let it neer: gentleman.
15^4. We killd a man a sleeping.
16^1. They have taken from him his sword and target.
16^3. wakened out of sleep.
16^4. was.
17^1. O _wanting_.
17^2. And now have mercy on.
17^3. Which as.
17^4. And so shall fall upon you.
18^2. Until I be a dead man.
18^3. You’ll get my hose, likewise my shoes.
18^4. Likewise my Highland brichan.
19^{1,2}. _Wanting._
19^{3,4} _with_ 20^{1,2}: 20^{3,4} _with_ 21^{1,2}: 21^{3,4}
_with_ 22^{3,4}: 22^{1,2} _wanting_.
19^3. You shall have my.
19^4. If you’ll carry me to Loughargan.
20^1. tane out his bleeding heart.
20^2. And fetched it on a spear man.
20^3. And locked it to the Marr.
20^4. A present to. 21^2. She ran.
21^3. She wrung her hands and smote her breast.
21^4. Oh what have I done, what have I acted.
22^3. day I you betrayd.
22^4. of Brichan.
23^1. Then _wanting_.
23^2. And in.
23^3. Her body by.
23^4. never was heard tell of: more _wanting_.
24. _Wanting._
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1^2. Buleichan, _and always_.
1^4. And his.
2^1. Now _wanting_.
2^3. To seek.
3. _Wanting._
4^4. They’re seeking for to.
5^2. there I’ll pay.
5^3. a maiden.
6^1. no gae.
6^3. thirty shillings for your.
6^4. And stay until the.
8^1. He had.
8^2. And past the Mill strethan.
10^1. S. J. the Rose.
11^1. But _wanting_.
11^2. She cried out.
11^3. S. J. the Rose.
12^1. Search the.
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