Finlay's Scottish Ballads, I, xix, from recitation.
| 1 |
There lived a lord into the south,
And he had dochters three,
And the youngest o them went to the king's court,
To learn some courtesie. |
| 2 |
She rowd it in a wee wee clout
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| 3 |
She rowd it in a wee wee clout
And flang't into the faem,
Saying, sink ye soon, my bonny babe!
I'll go a maiden hame. |
| 4 |
'O woe be to you, ye ill woman,
An ill death may ye die!
Gin ye had spared the sweet baby's life,
It might hae been an honour to thee.' |
| 5 |
She wadna put on her gowns o black,
Nor yet wad she o brown,
But she wad put on her gowns o gowd,
To glance through Embro town. |
| 6 |
'Come saddle not to me the black,' she says,
'Nor yet to me the brown,
But come saddle to me the milk-white steed,
That I may ride in renown.' |
