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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

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46<br />

MINSTllELSY OF<br />

THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL.<br />

A FRAGMENT.<br />

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.<br />

Theiik lived a wife at Usher's Well,<br />

And a wealthy wife was she ;<br />

She had three stout and stalwart sons.<br />

And sent <strong>the</strong>tn o'er <strong>the</strong> sea.<br />

They hadna been a week from her,<br />

A week but barelv ane,<br />

When word came to <strong>the</strong> carline wife,<br />

That her three sons were gane.

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