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... BATTLE OF BALRINNES .252 JOCK O ' THE SIDE . .264 HOBBIE NOBLE .271 DONALD OF THE ISLES .. .277 ELORE , LO .283 ROSLIN'S DAUGHTER ... .286 THE HONEYMOON ..292 INTRODUCTION . IN offering to the public a collected and CONTENTS . xi.
... BATTLE OF BALRINNES .252 JOCK O ' THE SIDE . .264 HOBBIE NOBLE .271 DONALD OF THE ISLES .. .277 ELORE , LO .283 ROSLIN'S DAUGHTER ... .286 THE HONEYMOON ..292 INTRODUCTION . IN offering to the public a collected and CONTENTS . xi.
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... re my lady and bride . Sae rue na ye've come to the Hielands , Sae rue na ye've come aff wi ' me ; For ye're the Macdonald's braw lady , And will be to the day that ye dee . " ELORE , LO . I CAN give no account of 282 DONALD OF THE ISLES .
... re my lady and bride . Sae rue na ye've come to the Hielands , Sae rue na ye've come aff wi ' me ; For ye're the Macdonald's braw lady , And will be to the day that ye dee . " ELORE , LO . I CAN give no account of 282 DONALD OF THE ISLES .
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... ELORE ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! I love my lusty love , ELORE LO ! " The light upspringeth , the dew down dingeth , The sweet lark singeth her hours of prime ; Phoebus up spenteth , joy to rest wenteth , So lost is mine intents , and gone ...
... ELORE ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! I love my lusty love , ELORE LO ! " The light upspringeth , the dew down dingeth , The sweet lark singeth her hours of prime ; Phoebus up spenteth , joy to rest wenteth , So lost is mine intents , and gone ...
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun. 66 ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! I love my lusty love , ELORE LO . Danger my dead is , false fortune my feid is , And languor my lead is , but † hope I despair , Disdain my desire is , so strangeness my ...
William Edmondstoune Aytoun. 66 ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! I love my lusty love , ELORE LO . Danger my dead is , false fortune my feid is , And languor my lead is , but † hope I despair , Disdain my desire is , so strangeness my ...
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... ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! I love my lusty love , ELORE LO ! " ROSLIN'S DAUGHTER . THIS very popular ballad is sometimes called ELORE , LO . 285.
... ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! ELORE ! I love my lusty love , ELORE LO ! " ROSLIN'S DAUGHTER . THIS very popular ballad is sometimes called ELORE , LO . 285.
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Page 113 - THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna...
Page lii - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Page 40 - He has gotten a coat of the even cloth, And a pair of shoes of velvet green ; And till seven years were gane and past, True Thomas on earth was never seen.
Page 39 - So thick beset with thorns and briers? That is the path of righteousness, Though after it but few enquires. 'And see ye not that braid braid road. That lies across that lily leven? That is the path of wickedness. Though some call it the road to heaven, 'And see ye not that bonny road That winds about the fernie brae?
Page 214 - And a harried man I think I be ! " There's naething left at the fair Dodhead, " But a waefu
Page 42 - O that I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries; Out of my bed she bids me rise, Says, 'Haste and come to me!
Page 4 - They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn, Wi' a' the speed they may ; They hae landed in Noroway, Upon a Wodensday. They hadna been a week, a week, In Noroway, but twae, When that the lords o' Noroway Began aloud to say, — 'Ye Scottishmen spend a' our King's goud, And a
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