Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THE SCOTTISH BORUEU,
O four and twenty valiant knights
Were set the Queen to guard ;
And four stood aye at her hour door.
To keep both watch and ward.
But when the time drew near an end,
That she suld Hghter be,
She cast about to find a wile,
To set her body free.
O she has birled these merry young men
With the ale but and tlie wine,
Until they were as deadly drunk
As any wild-wood swine.
" O narrow, narrow, is this window,
" And big, big, am I grown V
Yet through the might of Our Ladye,
Out at it she is gone.
She wander'd up, she wander'd down,
She wander'd out and in ;
And, at last, into the very swine"'s stythe,
The Queen brought forth a son.