Minstrelsy of the Scottish border - National Library of Scotland

THE SCOTTISH BORDER. 67
KING HENRIE.
ANCIENT COPY.
Let never man a wooing wend,
That lacketh thingis thrie ;
A rowth o' gold, an open heart,
And fu' o' courtesy.
And this was seen o' King Henrie,
For he lay burd alane ;
And he has ta'en him to a haunted hunt's ha\
Was seven miles frae a toun.
He's chaced the dun deer thro' the wood,
And the roe doun by the den,
Till the fattest buck, in a' the herd,
KinfT Henrie he has slain.