Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

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" O ye my errand weel sail learn,
" Before that I depart.""
Then drew a knife, baith lang and sharp.
And pierced him to the heart.
Then up and got the Queen hersell,
And fell low down on her knee :
" O spare my life, now, Fause Foodrage
" For I never iniiu-ed thee.
O spare my life, now, Fause Foodrage
" Until I lighter be !
And see gin it be lad or lass,
" King; Honour has left me wi'.^'
O gin it be a lass," he says,
" Weel nursed it sail be
But gin it be a lad bairn,
" He sail be hanged hie.
" I winna spare for his tender age,
" Nor yet for his hie hie kin ;
" But soon as e'er he born is,
" He sail mount the gallows pin.