Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THE SCOTTISH IJORDEll. 55
" It is not a maid that you hae wedded,
" But it is a maid that you hae bedded ;
" It is a leal maiden that lies by thee,
" But not the maiden that it should be."
O wrathfully he left the bed,
And wrathfully his claes on did
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And he has ta'en him through the ha',
And on his mother he did ca'.
" I am the most unhappy man,
" That ever was in Christen land !
" I courted a maiden, meik and mild,
" And I hae gotten naething but a woman wi' child.
" O stay, my son, into this ha\
" And sport ye wi"" your merrymen a'
'* And I will to the secret hour,
" To see how it fares wi' your paramour."
The carline she Avas stark and sture,
She aff the hinges dang the dure
" O is your bairn to laird or loun,
" Or is it to your father's groom .?"
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