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... ride a Day's Journey North from Dumfermling , and wherever he bated his horse he would give him a Mile round . The First place he halted at was Fechil , now called Leslie in Fife ; the Second was at Innerlepad in Angus ; the Third was ...
... ride a Day's Journey North from Dumfermling , and wherever he bated his horse he would give him a Mile round . The First place he halted at was Fechil , now called Leslie in Fife ; the Second was at Innerlepad in Angus ; the Third was ...
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... ride off with him to some greenwood side , but who , like the False Sir John of the ballad of May Colvin , falls himself into the snare he had set for his love . The ballad alluded to begins thus : Lady Isabel sits in her bouir sewing ...
... ride off with him to some greenwood side , but who , like the False Sir John of the ballad of May Colvin , falls himself into the snare he had set for his love . The ballad alluded to begins thus : Lady Isabel sits in her bouir sewing ...
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... the stour aff the highway , To let fair Annie ride . Mr. Jamieson has published a copy from recitation , entitled " Sweet Willie and Fair Annie , " of very great beauty . In 1769 Mr. Herd published his " Ancient and Modern Ixviii .
... the stour aff the highway , To let fair Annie ride . Mr. Jamieson has published a copy from recitation , entitled " Sweet Willie and Fair Annie , " of very great beauty . In 1769 Mr. Herd published his " Ancient and Modern Ixviii .
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... ride . The brown wood is threaded , The gray flood is passed ; And hoarser and wilder Is the moan of the blast . No star lends its taper , No moon sheds her glow ; For dark is the dull path That Baron must go . Though dark is the sky ...
... ride . The brown wood is threaded , The gray flood is passed ; And hoarser and wilder Is the moan of the blast . No star lends its taper , No moon sheds her glow ; For dark is the dull path That Baron must go . Though dark is the sky ...
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... ride , With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan ; But young Hynd Horn was bound for the bride , And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie . When he came to the King's gate , With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan ; He asked a drink for young ...
... ride , With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan ; But young Hynd Horn was bound for the bride , And the birk and the brume blooms bonnie . When he came to the King's gate , With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan ; He asked a drink for young ...
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ancient ballads Andrew Lammie Annie auld baith ballad birk bonnie banks bonny Annie Border Minstrelsy bower brother brume blooms bonnie Chield Morice Childe Maurice Clerk Saunders Clyde's water collection copy daughter dear doun Earl Marshall Edinburgh edition Editor Eh vow bonnie Fair Annie Fair Janet fair Scotland father fause Fause Foodrage Fordie frae Frendraught Fyvie gane gang Gil Morice gold gowd gude hame hand hey lillelu Hynd Jamieson John Johnie Scot King knight lady fair Lady Maisery ladye laird land Lord mair Maisry Margaret maun Minstrel mother ne'er never o'er old ballads owre poetry Popular Ballads printed recitation Reliques says sister song spak stanza steed Sweet Willie Syr Cauline ta'en thee thou Tiftie's traditionary true love TWA BROTHERS unto weel ye'll young young Benjie Young Johnstone
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Page 121 - 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...
Page liii - For Wetharryngton my harte was wo, That ever he slayne shulde be ; For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to, Yet he knyled and fought on hys kne.
Page 122 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Page 45 - Hame cam his gude horse, But never cam he! Out cam his auld mither Greeting fu' sair, And out cam his bonnie bride Rivin' her hair. Saddled and bridled And booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle But never cam he! "My meadow lies green, And my corn is unshorn, My barn is to bigg, And my babie's unborn.
Page 372 - Lie you there, dove Isabel, And all my sorrows lie with thee ; Till Kemp Owyne come ower the sea, And borrow you with kisses three, Let all the warld do what they will, Oh borrowed shall you never be !
Page 7 - As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane ; The tane unto the t'other say, " Where sall we gang and dine to-day...
Page 98 - O what hills are yon, yon pleasant hills, That the sun shines sweetly on ? ' ' O yon are the hills of heaven,' he said, ' Where you will never win.' ' 0 whaten a mountain is yon, she said, ' All so dreary wi' frost and snow ? ' ' O yon is the mountain of hell,' he cried,
Page 21 - The starling flew to his mother's window stane, It whistled and it sang ; And aye the ower word o' the tune Was — " Johnie tarries lang !
Page 183 - They lighted down to tak a drink Of the spring that ran sae clear; And down the stream ran his gude heart's blood, And sair she gan to fear. "Hold up, hold up, Lord William," she says "For I fear that you are slain!
Page 185 - Out o' the lady's grave grew a bonny red rose, And out o' the knight's a brier. And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near ; And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear.