Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THK SCOTTISH BOllDER.
" At kirk and market when we meet,
" We'll dare make nae avowe,
*' But—' Dame, how does my gay goss-hawk ?'
" Madame, how does my dow ?'
When days were gane, and years came on,
AVise W^illiam he thought lang ;
And he has ta^en King Honour's son
A hunting for to gang.
It sae fell out, at this hunting,
Upon a simmer's day.
That they came by a fair castell.
' Gin
Stood on a sunny brae.
O dinna ye see that bonny castell,
" Wi' halls and towers sae fair ?
ilka man had back his ain,
" Of it you suld be heir."
" How I suld be heir of that castell,
"In sooth I canna see
'* For it belangs to Fause Food rage,
" And he is na kin to me.'
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