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Child 173
Mary Hamilton
Version Q

Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, ed. Allardyce, 1888, II, 272, in a letter from Sharpe to W. Scott [1823].

Narrative

1   The Duke of York was my father,
My mother a lady free,
Myself a dainty damosell,
Queen Marie sent for me.
2   The queen's meat it was sae sweet,
Her cleiding it was sae rare,
It gart me grien for sweet Willie,
And I'll rue it evermair.

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