 | Peter Buchan - 1825 - 228 sider
...walking in the garden green | The belt around her siately waist J Cost Clerk Colvill of pounds fifteen. O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, .. » Or it will cost ye muckle strife; Ride never by the wells of Slanes, • • If ye wad live and brook your life. Now speak nae mair, ray lusty dame, Now speak nae... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 432 sider
...Wells of Slain, in the fine ballad of Clerk Colvill; such eddies in the romantic vicinity of Shuns Castle would be a fine place for a mermaid.* " Our...cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the Wells of Slarle; If ye wad live and brook your life." around us, particularly on the island of Hoy, which, covered... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1857 - 496 sider
...Cost Clerk Colvill of pounds fifteen. " O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, i Or it will cost ye muekle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life." " Now speak nae mair, my lusty dame, Now speak nae mair of that to me : 10 Did I ne'er sea a fair woman,... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1860 - 366 sider
...Colvill of pounds fifteen. " O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, s Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Hide never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life." CLERK COLVILL, OR THE MERMAID. 193 u Now speak nae mair, my lusty dame, Now speak nae mair of that... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1861 - 372 sider
...walking in the garden green ; The belt around her stately waist Cost Clerk Colvill of pounds fifteen. " O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, • Or it will cost...wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life." " Now speak nae mair, my lusty dame, Now speak nae mair of that to me : w Did I ne'er see a fair woman,... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1867 - 644 sider
...often mentioned in old ballads — deep, smooth, eddies, the favourite haunts of mermaids : — " 0 promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Hide never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life." Clerk СоЫЩ. A narrow plank... | |
 | David Herd - 1869 - 338 sider
...Clerk COLVILL of pounds fifteen. O promife me now, Clerk COLVILL, Or it will cofl ye muckle flrife ; Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life. Now fpeak nae mair, my lufty dame, Now fpeak nae mair of that to me ; Did I ne'er fee a fair woman,... | |
 | David Herd, Sidney Gilpin - 1870 - 368 sider
...Clerk COLVILL of pounds fifteen. O promife me now, Clerk COLVILL, Or it will coft ye muckle ftrife ; Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life. Now fpeak nae mair, my lufty dame, Now fpeak nae mair of that to me ; Did I ne'er fee a fair woman,... | |
 | 1871 - 692 sider
...waist Coat Clerk Colvill of pounds fifteen. 2 " Oh, promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will coat ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wou'd live and brook your life." 3 " Now speak nae mair, my lusty dame, Now speak nae mair of that... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1880 - 774 sider
...walking in the garden green ; The belt around her stately waist Cost Clerk Colvill of pounds fifteen. " 0 promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slanc, If ye wad live and brook your life." CLERK COLVILL, OR THE MERMAID. 193 " Now speak nae muir,... | |
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O promise me now, Clerk Colvill, Or it will cost ye muckle strife, Ride never by the wells of Slane, If ye wad live and brook your life. 
