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
18^1. are southering.
19^2. Which are.
20^1. So _wanting_.
20^4. but _wanting_.
21^2. fair _for_ she.
21^3. Calling unto his.
22^4. lord burned.
23^2. come to.
23^4. would not: _no_ &c.
24^4. sit: _no_ &c.
25^2. O _wanting_.
25^4. I wat _wanting_.
26^1. _One_ alas _wanting._
26^2. heart’s easy wan.
26^4. And, well _wanting_.
_Some readings of #b# are preferable, as in 6^2, 18^1, 21^3, 22^4;
others also, which may be editorial improvements._
#B.#
16. “This is another stanza which I afterwards received.”
#C.#
4^1. _A small stroke between_ out _and_ it.
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APPENDIX
#A# 26
And aft she cried, ‘Ohon! alas! alas!
A sair heart’s ill to win;
I wan a sair heart when I married him,
And the day it’s well returned again.’
My friend the late Mr Norval Clyne thought that this obscure
stanza might perhaps be cleared up by the following verses,
communicated to him in 1873 by the Rev. George Sutherland,
Episcopal clergyman at Tillymorgan, Aberdeenshire.
YOUNG TOLQUHON
Word has come to Young Tolquhon,
In his chamber where he lay,
That Sophia Hay, his first fair love,
Was wedded and away.
‘Sophia Hay, Sophia Hay,
My love, Sophia Hay,
I wish her anes as sair a heart
As she’s gien me the day.
‘She thinks she has done me great wrang,
But I don’t think it so;
I hope to live in quietness
When she shall live in woe.
‘She’ll live a discontented life
Since she is gone from me;
Ower seen, ower seen, a wood o green
Will shortly cover me.
‘When I am dead and in my grave,
Cause write upon me so:
“Here lies a lad who died for love,
And who can blame my woe.”’
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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