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... ta'en to the good church - door , And sained as well as thee . " Randolph , Earl Murray , was my sire , Dunbar , Earl March , was thine ; We loved when we were children small , Which still you yet may mind . " When I was a boy just ...
... ta'en to the good church - door , And sained as well as thee . " Randolph , Earl Murray , was my sire , Dunbar , Earl March , was thine ; We loved when we were children small , Which still you yet may mind . " When I was a boy just ...
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... ta'en away the bonniest knight In a ' my companie ! " But had I kenned , Tamlane , " she says , " A lady would borrow thee , I wad hae ta'en out thy twa grey e'en , Put in twa e'en o ' tree ! " Had I but kenned , Tamlane , " she says ...
... ta'en away the bonniest knight In a ' my companie ! " But had I kenned , Tamlane , " she says , " A lady would borrow thee , I wad hae ta'en out thy twa grey e'en , Put in twa e'en o ' tree ! " Had I but kenned , Tamlane , " she says ...
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... ta'en the Lindsay's light , With them the Gordons gay ; But the Jardines would not with him ride , And they rue it to this day . Then they hae harried the dales o ' Tyne , And half o ' Bambrough - shire , And the Otter - dale they ...
... ta'en the Lindsay's light , With them the Gordons gay ; But the Jardines would not with him ride , And they rue it to this day . Then they hae harried the dales o ' Tyne , And half o ' Bambrough - shire , And the Otter - dale they ...
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... ta'en True Thomas up behind ; And aye , whene'er her bridle rang , The steed gaed swifter than the wind . O they rade on , and further on , The steed gaed swifter than the wind , Until they reached a desert wide , And living land was ...
... ta'en True Thomas up behind ; And aye , whene'er her bridle rang , The steed gaed swifter than the wind . O they rade on , and further on , The steed gaed swifter than the wind , Until they reached a desert wide , And living land was ...
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... . " O cocks are crowing a merry midnight , I wot the wild - fowl are boding day ; The psalms of heaven will soon be sung , And I , ere now , will be missed away . " Then she has ta'en a crystal wand , And she 52 22 CLERK SAUNDERS .
... . " O cocks are crowing a merry midnight , I wot the wild - fowl are boding day ; The psalms of heaven will soon be sung , And I , ere now , will be missed away . " Then she has ta'en a crystal wand , And she 52 22 CLERK SAUNDERS .
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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
Page 50 - Then up and gat the seventh o' them, And never a word spake he ; But he has striped his bright brown brand Out through Clerk Saunders