8 In lovely sport and merriment the night away they spent In Venus game, for their delight and both their hearts content: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Betimes in the morning then, as soon as it was day, He left the damosel fast asleep and nimbly budgd away. When he from her an hour was gone the damosel she did wake, And seeing the begger-man not there her heart began to ake. 10 Then did she sigh and wring her hands, the tears did trickling pour, For loosing her virginity and virgins maiden flower. When twenty weeks were come and gone her heart was something sad, Because she found herself with barn, and does not know the dad. 11 ‘There is, I see, no remedy for what is past and gone, And many a one that laughs at me may do as I have done.’ Then did she take her milk-pail, and flung it over the wall: ‘O the Devil go with my milk-pail, my maidenhead and all!’ 12 You maidens fair, where ere you are, Keep up your store and goods, For when that some have got their wills They’l leave you in the suds. Let no man tempt you nor entice, be not too fond and coy, But soon agree to loyalty, Your freedom to enjoy. 4^4. go that way. APPENDIX THE GABERLUNYIE-MAN Printed in the first volume of Ramsay’s Tea-Table Miscellany, 1724, from which it was repeated in Thomson’s Orpheus Caledonius, 1725, fol. 43, and Old Ballads, III, 259, the same year; in the Dublin reprint of the Miscellany, 1729, I, 96, the “fifth edition,” London, 1730, and the ninth edition, London, 1733, I. 84. The first edition, 1724, being of extreme rarity, if anywhere now to be found, the piece is given here from Old Ballads, which agrees with Orpheus Caledonius except as to the spelling of a single word. The Gaberlunyie-Man is one of the pieces which were subjected to revision in the Miscellany; “such old verses as have been done time out of mind, and only wanted to be cleared from the dross of blundering transcribers and printers, such as ‘The Gaberlunzie-man,’ ‘Muirland Willy,’” etc. (Ramsay’s preface.) In recited copies, as the “Old Lady’s Collection,” No 13 (Skene MS., p. 65), and Motherwell’s MS., p. 31, the girl is made to come back again to see her mother (or the gaberlunyie-man brings her) ‘wi a bairn in her arms and ane in her wame;’ but for all that a fine lady, ‘wi men- and maid-servants at her command.’ * * * * * Translated by Herder, II, 264; Bodmer, I, 68; Fiedler, p. 23; Loeve-Veimars, p. 356.