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Child Ballads - Lyrics

Child 173
Mary Hamilton
Version P

Kinloch's Manuscripts, VII, 95, 97.

Narrative

1   My father's the duke of Argyll,
My mither's a lady gay,
And I mysel am a dainty dame,
And the king desired me.
2   schawd [me] up, he schawed me doun,
He schawd me to the ha;
He schawd me to the low cellars,
And that was waurst of a'.

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