The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
9^2, 12^1, 13^4, 21^3, 35^4, 44^4, 48^1, 65^1, 70^3. landis.
10^1. then called a.
10^2. the erle.
10^4. He knelit.
11^4. where bydeth.
12^3. And desyre.
13^2. sall gie.
16^4. hym neir bi.
17^1. Of that.
17^3. castell feir.
17^4. were gaye.
18^4. on Newark lee.
19^1. were a’.
19^2. sae gaye.
19^4. 1802, gin. 1803, _instead of_ 19^{3,4}:
His men were a’ clad in the grene,
The knight was armed capapie,
With a bended bow, on a milk-white steed,
And I wot they ranked right bonilie.
19^5. Thereby Boyd.
20^4. seemis.
22^2. I ken.
22^4. his knightis.
23^3, 37^3, 58^1. ye.
23^5. hath.
25^3, 50^4. nobilis.
26^3. befor a.
27^3. James Boyd.
28^1. When James he.
28^2. He knelit lowlie on: seyd our.
30^3. in the forefront.
31^1. and a.
31^2. Wi the.
31^4. He keepis a royalle cumpanie.
32^1. in ae.
32^2. sae gaye.
32^4. gin.
33^2. frae the Southronie.
33^4, 65^4. kingis.
34.
‘Gar warn me Perthshire and Angus baith,
Fife up and down and the Louthians three, (_cf._ =B= 33^{1,2})
And graith my horse,’ said the nobil king,
‘For to Ettricke Foreste hie will I me.’
35^3. 1803, cuming.
36^4. 1802, cumand.
37^2. hie them.
37^3, 69^2. gae.
38^{3,4}.
The king cums on for Ettricke Foreste,
And landless men we a’ will be. (_Cf._ =B= 34.)
40^1. said.
41^2. surely mair.
_Between 41^{1,2} and 41^{3,4}_:
And before he gets the Foreste feir,
We a’ will die on Newark Lee. (_Cf._ =B= 40.)
41^{3,4}.
The Outlaw calld a messenger,
And bid him hie him speedilye.
43. _wanting_.
44^1. Andrew Murray said.
44^2, 61^2. gif: na.
44^4. And set.
45^1. if.
45^3. laird _wanting_.
47^{1,2}.
And now he is cuming (1802, cumand) to Ettricke Foreste,
And landless men ye a’ will be. (_Cf._ =B= 41^{3,4}).
47^4. will I live.
48^2. 1802, canna: warse.
49^1. 1803, cuming.
49^2. full five.
49^3. the derke.
50^3. sovereign liege.
51^1. mete thee.
52^1, 56^1. gif.
52^2. We’ll conquess baith his landis and he.
52^4. Hald.
_Between 52 and 53_:
Then spak the kene laird of Buckscleuth,
A stalworthye man and sterne was he;
‘For a king to gang an Outlaw till
Is beneath his state and his dignitie.
‘The man that wons yon Foreste intill,
He lives by reif and felonie;
Wherefore, brayd on, my sovereign liege,
Wi fire and sword we’ll follow thee; (_see_ =a= 52^2)
Or, gif your courtrie lords fa back,
Our borderers sall the onset gie.’
Then out and spak the nobil king,
And round him cast a wilie ee;
‘Now haud thy tongue, sir Walter Scott,
Nor speik of reif nor felonie,
For, had everye honeste man his awin kye,
A right puir clan thy name wad be.’
53^2. there was.
53^3. Hop.
54^2. A message ye maun gang.
55^2, 58^2. four in.
57^4. What message.
58^3. erles sall gang himsell befor.
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