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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 161
The Battle of Otterburn
Version E

Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. lxxi, note 30; from a recited copy.

Narrative

1   'O yield thee to yon braken-bush,
That grows upon yon lilly lie;
For there lies aneth yon braken-bush
What aft has conquered mae than thee.'

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