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
1^2. Buleighan, _and always_.
1^4. Whase friends.
2^1. has gane.
2^2. Whar nane might seek to find him.
2^4. Weining.
3^1. said.
3^2. O whar awa are ye.
3^3. I maun be bound.
3^4. And now.
4^2. I rin to lay.
4^4. And his friends seek.
5^1. yon laigh.
5^2. I sall pay there.
5^3. And as I am your leman trew.
5^4. at the.
6. _Wanting._
7^1. He turnd.
7^2. And laid him doun to.
8^3. Whan.
9^4. sent to.
10^1. Yea, I: said.
10^2. He past by here.
10^3. Gin.
10^4. the Hichts of Lundie.
11^1. as wi speid they rade awa.
11^2. She leudly cryd.
11^3. Gin ye’ll gie me a worthy meid.
11^4. whar to.
12.
‘O tell, fair maid, and, on our band,
Ye’se get his purse and brechan:’
‘He’s in the bank aboon the mill,
In the lawlands o Buleighan.’
13, 14. _Wanting._
15^1. out and spak.
15^3. said, my stalwart feres.
15^4. We killd him whan a.
16^{3,4}.
O pardon, mercy, gentlemen!
He then fou loudly sounded.
17^{3,4}–19.
‘Sic as ye gae sic ye sall hae,
Nae grace we shaw to thee can.’
‘Donald my man, wait till I fa,
And ye shall hae my brechan;
Ye’ll get my purse, thouch fou o gowd,
To tak me to Loch Lagan.’
20^1. Syne they tuke out his bleeding heart.
20^2. And set.
20^4. And shawd.
21.
We cold nae gie Sir James’s purse,
We cold nae gie his brechan,
But ye sall ha his bleeding heart,
Bot and his bleeding tartan.
22^1. O for.
22^2. My heart is now.
22^3. day I wrocht thy wae.
22^4. brave heir.
23^{2,3}. And in that hour o tein, She wanderd to the dowie glen.
23^4. never mair was sein.
24. _Wanting._
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THE BRAES O YARROW
#A.# ‘The Braes of Yarrow,’ communicated to Percy by Dr Robertson,
Principal of Edinburgh.
#B.# ‘The Braes o Yarrow,’ Murison MS., p. 105.
#C.# ‘The Dowie Downs o Yarrow,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 334;
Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, p. 252.
#D.# ‘The Bonny Braes of Yarrow,’ communicated to Percy by Robert
Lambe, of Norham, 1768.
#E. a.# ‘The Dowy Houms o Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for
Border Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford. #b.# ‘The Dowie Dens of Yarrow,’
Scott’s Minstrelsy III, 72, 1803, III, 143, 1833.
#F.# ‘The Dowie Dens o Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border
Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford.
#G.# ‘The Dowie Dens of Yarrow,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border
Minstrelsy,” Abbotsford.
#H.# ‘The Dowie Dens of Yarrow,’ Campbell MSS, II, 55.
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