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amang Andrew Lammie auld baith ballad blude bonnie bonnie Lizie Baillie Border bouir Braes bride brother busk castle cauld Clerk Saunders copy dear deir Douglas doun Earl fair Annie fair Janet fair Scotland father fause fell flouir frae gane gang Gordon gowd green gude hame hand haud Hazelgreen heart heid heire of Linne horse Jock John Johnie king kiss knicht lady ladye Laird Lammikin licht Liddesdale Lord maid Margaret maun micht Minstrelsy mony mother Motherwell nae mair nane ne'er never ower rade richt ride sall says Scottish Sir Patrick Spens sister slain spak stanzas steed sune sweet sweit Syde Syne taen thee thou toun true love twa sisters wadna weel weip Willie winna Yarrow ye maun ye'll Young Bekie young Huntin
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Page 388 - gainst the English yew, To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack was braced, and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore ; At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The baron returned in three days...
Page 7 - He hadna gane a step, a step, A step but barely ane, When a bout flew out of our goodly ship, And the salt sea it came in. ' Gae, fetch a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And wap them into our ship's side, And let na the sea come in.
Page 113 - And a' by the light of the moon, Until they came to yon wan water, And there they lighted down.
Page 79 - I bade you bring him wi you, But forbade you him to slay." He was a braw gallant, And he rid at the ring; And the bonny Earl of Murray, Oh he might have been a king! He was a braw gallant, And he playd at the ba ; And the bonny Earl of Murray Was the flower amang them a'.
Page 5 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?' O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee, 'Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
Page 389 - The bittern clamour'd from the moss, The wind blew loud and shrill ; Yet the craggy pathway she did cross To the eiry Beacon Hill. " I watch'd her steps, and silent came Where she sat her on a stone ; — No watchman stood by the dreary flame, It burned all alone.
Page 389 - But it was not English gore. He lighted at the Chapellage, He held him close and still; And he whistled thrice for his little foot-page, His name was English Will. "Come thou hither, my little...
Page 389 - Come thou hither, my little foot-page ; Come hither to my knee ; Though thou art young, and tender of age, I think thou art true to me. ' Come, tell me all that thou hast seen, And look thou tell me true ! Since I from Smaylho'me tower have been, What did thy lady do?
Page 327 - And what will ye leave to your bairns and your wife, Edward, Edward? And what will ye leave to your bairns and your wife, When ye gang owre the sea, O?" — "The warld's room: let them beg through life, Mither, mither; The warld's room: let them beg through life; For them never mair will I see, O.
Page 65 - And when we cam to the lower prison, Where Willie o' Kinmont he did lie — " O sleep ye, wake ye, Kinmont Willie, Upon the morn that thou's to die ? " "OI sleep saft, and I wake aft, It's lang since sleeping was fley'd frae me ; Gie my service back to my wife and bairns, And a' gude fellows that spier for me.