Peggy has been seen in the garden with Jamie late in the night, for which her mother calls her to account. She does not deny the fact; she takes the blame on herself; the thing will happen again. But going to her bower, where Jamie is attending her, she tells him they must meet no more. He makes a tryst with her in the greenwood at midnight, she keeps it and goes off with her lover. Her father pursues them, but they are married before he gets to the top of the hill. 1 ‘O whare hae ye been, Peggy? O whare hae ye been?’ ‘I the garden amang the gilly-flowrs, Atween twal hours and een.’ 2 ‘Ye’ve na been there your leen, Peggy, Ye’ve na been there your leen; Your father saw you in Jamie’s arms, Atween twal hours and een.’ 3 ‘Tho my father saw me in Jamie’s arms, He’ll see me there again; For I will sleep in Jamie’s arms When his grave’s growin green.’ 4 ‘Your Jamie is a rogue, Peggy, Your Jamie is a loun, For trysting out our ae dochter, And her sae very young.’ 5 ‘Lay no the wyte on Jamie, mither, The blame a’ lies on me; For I will sleep in Jamie’s arms When your een winna see.’ 6 Now she has to her ain bouer gane; He was waiting there him leen: ‘I’m blythe to see ye, Jamie, here, For we maunna meet again.’ 7 She’s tane the wine-glass in her hand, Pourd out the wine sae clear; Says, Here’s your health and mine, Jamie, And we maun meet na mair. 8 She has tane him in her arms twa, And gien him kisses five; Says, Here’s your health and mine, Jamie, I wish weel mote ye thrive. 9 ‘Your father has a bonnie cock, Divides the nicht and day, And at the middle watch o the nicht In greenwud ye’ll meet me.’ 10 Whan bells war rung, and mass was sung, And a’ men boun for bed, She’s kilted up her green claithing, And met Jamie in the wud. 11 Whan bells war rung, and mass was sung, About the hour o twa, It’s up bespak her auld father, Says, Peggy is awa! 12 ‘Ga saddle to me the black, the black, Ga saddle to me the grey;’ But ere they wan to the tap o the hill The wedding was a’ bye. 299 TROOPER AND MAID =A.= ‘The Trooper and Fair Maid,’ Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 230. =B.= ‘The Trooper,’ Motherwell’s MS., p. 27. =C.= Jamieson’s Scottish Ballads, II, 158. A trooper comes to the house of his mistress in the evening and is kindly received. They pass the night together and are wakened by the trumpet. He must leave her; she follows him some way, he begging her to turn back. She asks him repeatedly when they are to meet again and marry. He answers, when cockle shells grow siller bells, when fishes fly and seas gang dry, etc.: see I, 168, 437.