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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

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THE SCOTTISH BORDER. 103<br />

Give me your green manteel, fair maid ;<br />

" Grive me your maidenhead !<br />

Gin ye winna give me your green manteel,<br />

" Give me vour maidenhead !'"<br />

" Perhaps <strong>the</strong>re may be bairns, kind sir<br />

" Perhaps <strong>the</strong>re may be nane ;<br />

" But if you be a courtier,<br />

" You'll tell me soon your name.''<br />

I am nae courtier, fair maid,<br />

" But new come frae <strong>the</strong> sea ;<br />

I am nae courtier, fair maid,<br />

" But when I court with <strong>the</strong>e.<br />

" They call me Jack, when I'm abroad<br />

" Sometimes <strong>the</strong>y call me John ;<br />

" But, when Fm in my fa<strong>the</strong>r's bower,<br />

" Jock Randal is my name."

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