English and Scottish Ballads: Book I. Romances of chivalry and legends of the popular heroes of England. Book II Ballads involving various superstitions as Fairies, Elves, Magic and GhostsFrancis James Child Little, Brown and Company, 1857 |
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... bairn on whom I will , I'll father nane on thee . " - Out then spak her father dear , And he spak meik and mild " And ever , alas ! my sweet Janet , I fear ye gae with child . ” - " And if I be with child , father , Mysell maun bear the ...
... bairn on whom I will , I'll father nane on thee . " - Out then spak her father dear , And he spak meik and mild " And ever , alas ! my sweet Janet , I fear ye gae with child . ” - " And if I be with child , father , Mysell maun bear the ...
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... bairn's father . " And , next , they'll shape me in your arms , A tod , but and an eel ; But had me fast , nor let me gang , As you do love me weel . " They'll shape me in your arms , Janet , A dove , but and a swan ; And , last , they ...
... bairn's father . " And , next , they'll shape me in your arms , A tod , but and an eel ; But had me fast , nor let me gang , As you do love me weel . " They'll shape me in your arms , Janet , A dove , but and a swan ; And , last , they ...
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... bairn's father . They shaped him in her arms at last , A mother - naked man : She wrapt him in her green mantle , And sae her true love wan ! Up then spake the Queen o ' Fairies , Out o ' a bush o ' broom " She that has borrow'd young ...
... bairn's father . They shaped him in her arms at last , A mother - naked man : She wrapt him in her green mantle , And sae her true love wan ! Up then spake the Queen o ' Fairies , Out o ' a bush o ' broom " She that has borrow'd young ...
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... bairn to laird or loun , Or is it to your father's groom ? " " O hear me , mother , on my knee , Till my sad story I tell to thee : O we were sisters , sisters seven , We were the fairest under heaven . " It fell on a summer's afternoon ...
... bairn to laird or loun , Or is it to your father's groom ? " " O hear me , mother , on my knee , Till my sad story I tell to thee : O we were sisters , sisters seven , We were the fairest under heaven . " It fell on a summer's afternoon ...
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... ? " " Nor blows the wind within my glove , Nor runs my mind on another love ; " " But I not maid nor maiden am , For I'm wi ' bairn to another man . " 20 25 30 3333 " I thought I'd a maiden sae meek and sae BOTHWELL . 277.
... ? " " Nor blows the wind within my glove , Nor runs my mind on another love ; " " But I not maid nor maiden am , For I'm wi ' bairn to another man . " 20 25 30 3333 " I thought I'd a maiden sae meek and sae BOTHWELL . 277.
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Side 219 - And see not ye that bonny road, That winds about the fernie brae? That is the road to fair Elfland, Where thou and I this night maun gae. " But, Thomas, ye maun hold your tongue, Whatever ye may hear or see ; For, if you speak word in Elflyn land, Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie.
Side 220 - For a' the blude that's shed on earth Rins through the springs o' that countrie. Syne they came on to a garden green, And she pu'd an apple frae a tree — * ' Take this for thy wages, true Thomas ; It will give thee the tongue that can never lie.' 'My tongue is mine ain,' true Thomas said; 'A gudely gift ye wad gie to me!
Side 217 - Her shirt was o' the grass-green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fyne ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane, Hung fifty siller bells and nine. True Thomas, he pull'd aff his cap, And louted low down to his knee, " All hail, thou mighty queen of heaven ! For thy peer on earth I never did see." —
Side 220 - O they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk, mirk night, and there was nae stern light, And they waded through red blude to the knee; For a' the blude, that's shed on earth, Rins through the springs o
Side 241 - Hive-hill, And strew'd on's white hals bane, so " 0 where were ye, my milk-white steed. That I hae coft sae dear, That wadna watch and waken me, 35 When there was maiden here...
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Side 252 - Her mother died when she was young, Which gave her cause to make great moan ; Her father married the warst woman That ever lived in Christendom. She served her with foot and hand, In every thing that she could dee; Till once in an unlucky time She threw her in ower Craigy's sea.