English and Scottish popular ballads - National Library of Scotland

When you 're bracht hame to yon kirkyaird,
You '11 gie them a' thier leave.
14 ' Ye come in to yonder kirk
Wi the goud plaits in your hair
When you 're bracht hame to yon kirkyaird,
You will them a' forbear.'
Alex. Laing, Ancient Ballads and Songs, etc., etc., from
the recitation of old people. Never published. 1S29. P. 6.
1 Fair Margret was a young ladye,
An come of high degree ;
Fair Margret was a young ladye,
An proud as proud coud be.
2 Fair Margret was a rich ladye,
The king's cousin was she ;
Fair Margaret was a rich ladye,
An vain as vain coud be.
3 She war'd her wealth on the gay cleedin
That comes frae yont the sea,
She spent her time frae morning till night
Adorning her fair bodye.
4 Ae night she sate in her stately ha,
Kaimin her yellow hair,
When in there cum like a gentle knight,
An a white scarf he did wear.
5 ' O what 'a your will wi me, sir knight,
O what 's your will wi me ?
You 're the likest to my ae brother
That ever I did see.
6
' You 're the likest to my ae brother
That ever I hae seen,
B 15 8 ' 4
, 16 1 ' 2 , C 9* 4 , 10 1,2 are rightly answers, not
questions: ef. A 9, 10. D 6 furnishes the ques-
tion answered in B 17.
B. b. Motherwell begins at st. 25.
27'. gowd band.
28\ 29 1 . kirk. 30 2 . owergangs.
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PROUD LADY MARGARET 431
15 He got her in her mither's hour,
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Puttin goud plaits in her hair ;
He left her in her father's gairden,
Mournin her sins sae sair.
But he 's buried in Dunfermline kirk,
A month an mair bygane.'
' I 'm the likest to your ae brother
That ever ye did see,
But I canna get rest into my grave,
A' for the pride of thee.
8 ' Leave pride, Margret, leave pride, Margret,
Leave pride an vanity
Ere ye see the sights that I hae seen,
Sair altered ye maun be.
9 ' ye come in at the kirk-door
Wi the gowd plaits in your hair ;
But wud ye see what I hae seen,
Ye maun them a' forbear.
10 ' O ye come in at the kirk-door
Wi the gowd prins i your sleeve ;
But wad ye see what I hae seen,
Ye maun gie them a' their leave.
11
' Leave pride, Margret, leave pride, Margret,
Leave pride an vanity ;
Ere ye see the sights that I hae seen,
Sair altered ye maun be.'
12 He got her in her stately ha,
Kaimin her yellow hair,
He left her on her sick sick bed,
Sheding the saut saut tear.
32 2 . In the. 32 s . And naething.
Kind Squire in the title, and kind in l 1
,
21 1
; I suppose by mistake of my copyist.
163 . You 're (?).
17 2 . the clay cold.
8 3 , ll 3 . E'er.
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