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I \ mer MAT coLvnsr. This version of " May Colvin " is copied from Motherwell's Collection. Motherwell states that he had seen a " printed stall copy as early as 1749, entitled, ' The Western Tragedy,' " which perfectly agreed with the enlarged version given from recitation in Sharpe's Ballad Book. He had also " seen a later stall print, called the ' Historical Ballad of May Culezean,' to which is prefixed some local tradition, that the lady there celebrated was of the family of Kennedy, and that her treacherous and murder-hunting lover was an Ecclesiastick of the Monastery of Maybole." In Carrick, where the ballad is popular, the general tradition is that the " Fause Sir John" was the laird of Carleton, and " May Colzean" a daughter of Kennedy of Culzean. Chambers has thus embodied the tradition :— " The ballad finds locality in that wild portion of the coas t of 5 Carrick which intervenes betwixt Girvan and Ballantrae. Carleton i Castle, about two miles to the south of Girvan, (a tall old ruin, situated i on the brink of a bank which overhangs the sea, and which gives title to Sir John Cathcart, Bart, of Carleton) is affirmed by the country people, who still remember the story [tradition rather] with great freshness, to have been the residence of ' the Fause Sir John ;' while a little rocky eminence, called Gamsloup, overhanging the sea about two miles farther south, and over which the road passes in a style terrible to all travellers, is pointed out as the place where he was in the habit of drowning his wives, and where he was finally drowned himself. The people, who look \ upon the ballad as a regular and proper record of an unquestionable fact, farther affirm that May Collean was a daughter of the family of Kennedy ! of Culzean, now represented by the Earl of Cassillis, and that she became i | heir to all the immense wealth which her husband had acquired by his for- mal-practices, and accordingly lived happily all the rest of her days." The version we have given is the one common in Carrick. The air is par. I I ticularly plaintive, and when sung in the simple style of the peasantry, is very interesting. A ballad, under the same title, and precisely similar in incident, is printed by Buchan in his Collection, who points out Binyan's Bay, at the mouth of the Ugie, where Peterhead now stands, as the scene of" the Fause Sir John's" fate. The old minstrels were so much in the habit of altering the names of persons and places, to suit the districts in which they sojourned for the time, that it is, in many instances, difficult 38
; : THE LASS OF PATIE S MILL. ^ to say to what part of the country a ballad belongs. In this case, how- | \ ever, as Buchan's ballad is evidently an extended version of the western J one, we would be inclined to assign the paternity to Ayrshire. Cf)e Ease of mtit'^ Mill The Lass of Patie's Mill, So bonnie, blythe, and gay, In spite of all ray skill, She stole my heart away. When tedding of the hay. Bare-headed on the green, Love 'midst her locks did play, And wanton'd in her een. Her arms, white, round, and smooth, Breasts rising in then* down, To age it would give youth, To press 'em with his hand Thro' all my spirits ran An extacy of bliss, When I such sweetness found Wrapt in a balmy kiss. Without the help of art, Like flowers which grace the wild, She did her sweets impart, Whene'er she spoke or smil'd. Her looks they were so mild. Free from affected pride. She me to love beguU'd I wish'd her for my bride. Wm 39
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; ; ;! He was not in wedlock, thank
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: ; ; Wha ance was your match at a
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I — — ; KIKKDAMDIK FAIR. spelli
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; ; KIRKDAMDIE FAIR. To try a lass,
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— ; ; — A large amount used to
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— ;— ; ; KIRKDAMDIE FAIR. But h
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: ; THE AUIiD FLECKIT COW. Boil'd m
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; an astonishing quantity of milk.
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PETSR galbraith. walls. The stone-a
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PETER GAMKAITH. which invariably ha
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: :— —; THE BLOODY RAID. " Ha !
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—; ! Through the long night withi
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THE lady's dream. If she is kind un
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; ; ; ; THE LADY'S DREAM. " And the
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— — : ; : sATS I, QUO' I. In he
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— — ;— —; I AM A JOLLY FARM
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.' things ' j i ) Scottish in its c
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owe the preservation of this fine b
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', sentiment — j j EEMAEKS. humou
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; — ; BALLADS AND SONGS OF AYRSHI
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; ; —— Her scarf of a beautiful
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; ; ; THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNUKE. And
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; — THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNURE. And
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— THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNUKE. But a
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; ; — — THE FAIRY LADY OF DUNUR
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THE WARLOCK LAIRD OF FAIL. Abbot fo
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; THE WARLOCK LAIKD OF FAIL. And in
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; THE WARLOCK LAIRD OF FAIL. " The
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PRESTWICK DRUM. near the close of t
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; PRESTWICK DKUM. liam I., the chur
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; : : HAKDYKNUTE. Full thirteen son
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; HAEDYKNUTE. Quoth Noble Rothsay,
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; HARDYKNUTE. There on a lee where
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HARDYKNUTE. the ballad may be ancie
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CARRICK FOR A MAN. represented in t
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'( '/ CAERICK FOR A MAN. of English
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; DANIEL BARR. The lassies they a'
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; — " SCOFFING BALLAD." This, as
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— " SCOFFING BALLAD." ! when it w
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i ! THE SANG THE SPINDLE. An' Bell
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; ; ; mm 'Tis a chamber for the bri
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; But 'deed it's best to let it be.
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I WHEN — ! I UPON THY BOSOM LEAN.
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; SIK ARTHUR AND LADY ANNE. Janet A
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; ; If I e'er rin against my will,
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'i where, ; ; ; THE BEDS OF SWEET R
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• ; ; ; —! JAMIE TAMSON. Oh ! b
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JAMIE TAMSON. formation of this cor
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NA TO BE MAEKEIT AVA. the ith of Oc
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; THE AYRSHIRE LADDIE. Now, lads, g
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; ; ®{)£rc's nae aSarJj to ©tiar
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; Maun yield to Robin's sweet love-
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; ; ; — ' DRUCKEN JOCK. Or nurse
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:; —; A' are nearly fou, Lippin'
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— ; ; rioun Crawfurd, Lady Shipne
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; ; ; TAM O THE DOWN. mm Quo' she,
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— — — • THE HILLS OF GALLOW
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; ; But too late I found, even she
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; ; ; ; RURAL LIBERTY. And gazing,
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And Changue was a pious guidly man,
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; ; ; ; THE LAIRD O CHANGUE. Changu
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WHAT BIKD IN BEAUTY, FLIGHT, OR SON
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