Ancient Scottish ballads : recovered from tradition ... - Electric Scotland

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"Ye'll turn about, Earl Richard,
And mak some mair o' me : *
An ye mak me lady o' ae puir plow,
I can mak you laird o' three."
" If ye be the Earl o' Stockford's dochtcr.
As I've some thouchts ye be,
Aft hae I waited at your father's yettf
But your face I ne'er could see."
Whan they cam to her father's yctt,
She tirled on the pin;}:;
And an auld belly-blind§ man was sittin' tlierc
As they were entering in:—
"The meetest marriage," the belly-blind did cry,
"Atween the ane and the ither;
Atween the Earl o' Stockford's ae dochter.
And the queen o' England's brither."
* Mak' some mair o' me—show me more kindness, and attention.
f Yctt—gate. \ Juried on the pin—twirled the latch or door-pin.
§ Bellij-hlind— stone-blind.