[A composite volume : containing The ballads and songs of Ayrshire ...

LOUDOUN CASTIiE.
I'll
no come down, I'll no come down,
For neither laird nor loun.
Nor yet for any bloody butcher
That lives in Altringham town.
I would give the black, she says.
And so would I the brown,
If that Thomas, my only son.
Could charge to me a gun.
Out then spake the lady Margaret,
As she stood on the stair,
The fire was at her goud garters,
The lowe was at ber hair.
I would give the black, she says,
And so would I the brown,
For a drink of yon water.
That rins by Galston Town.
Out then spake fair Anne,
She was baith jimp and sma',
O row me in a pair o' sheets,
And tow me down the wa'.
O hold thy tongue, thou fair Anne,
And let thy talkin' be.
For thou must stay in this fair castle,
And bear thy death with me.
O mother, spoke the Lord Thomas,
As he sat on the nurses knee ;
O mothei", give up this fair castle,
Or the reek will worrie me.
I would rather be burnt to ashes sma'.
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And be cast on yon sea foam,
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