A broadside in black letter, "printed, I suppose," says
Pinkerton," about 1670, "bound up with five other pieces at the
end of a copy of Blind Harry's 'Wallace,' Edin. 1673, in the
Pepysian Library.
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My plaid awa, my plaid awa,
And ore the hill and far awa,
And far awa to Norrowa,
My plaid shall not be blown awa. |
| 1 |
The elphin knight sits on yon hill,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
He blaws his horn both lowd and shril.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 2 |
He blowes it east, he blowes it west,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
He blowes it where he lyketh best.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 3 |
'I wish that horn were in my kist,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Yea, and the knight in my armes two.'
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 4 |
She had no sooner these words said,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
When that the knight came to her bed.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 5 |
'Thou art over young a maid,' quoth he,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
'Married with me thou il wouldst be.'
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 6 |
'I have a sister younger than I,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
And she was married yesterday.'
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 7 |
'Married with me if thou wouldst be,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
A courtesie thou must do to me.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 8 |
'For thou must shape a sark to me,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Without any cut or heme,' quoth he.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 9 |
'Thou must shape it knife-and-sheerlesse,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
And also sue it needle-threedlesse.'
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 10 |
'If that piece of courtesie I do to thee,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Another thou must do to me.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 11 |
'I have an aiker of good ley-land,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 12 |
'For thou must eare it with thy horn,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
So thou must sow it with thy corn.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 13 |
'And bigg a cart of stone and lyme,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Robin Redbreast he must trail it hame.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 14 |
'Thou must barn it in a mouse-holl,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
And thrash it into thy shoes soll.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 15 |
'And thou must winnow it in thy looff,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
And also seck it in thy glove.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 16 |
'For thou must bring it over the sea,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
And thou must bring it dry home to me.
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 17 |
'When thou hast gotten thy turns well done,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Then come to me and get thy sark then.'
The wind hath blown my plaid awa |
| 18 |
'I'l not quite my plaid for my life;
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
It haps my seven bairns and my wife.'
The wind shall not blow my plaid awa |
| 19 |
'My maidenhead I'l then keep still,
Ba, ba, ba, lilli ba
Let the elphin knight do what he will.'
The wind's not blown my plaid awa |
