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... Yarrow Tragedy by William Hamilton of Bangour , and John Logan - an honour to which their great popularity , and their supersedence of the older versions of the story , seem fairly to en- title them . Wherever , in any ballad , not ...
... Yarrow Tragedy by William Hamilton of Bangour , and John Logan - an honour to which their great popularity , and their supersedence of the older versions of the story , seem fairly to en- title them . Wherever , in any ballad , not ...
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... Yarrow Tragedy by William Hamilton of Bangour , and John Logan - an honour to which their great popularity , and their supersedence of the older versions of the story , seem fairly to en- title them . Wherever , in any ballad , not ...
... Yarrow Tragedy by William Hamilton of Bangour , and John Logan - an honour to which their great popularity , and their supersedence of the older versions of the story , seem fairly to en- title them . Wherever , in any ballad , not ...
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... 198 204 205 210 • 215 219 The Water o ' Wearie's Well 221 The Broom blooms Bonnie and says it is Fair 224 Young Johnstone 226 Johnnie Scott 231 PAGE Gilderoy Catherine Johnstone The Dowie Dens o ' Yarrow X CONTENTS .
... 198 204 205 210 • 215 219 The Water o ' Wearie's Well 221 The Broom blooms Bonnie and says it is Fair 224 Young Johnstone 226 Johnnie Scott 231 PAGE Gilderoy Catherine Johnstone The Dowie Dens o ' Yarrow X CONTENTS .
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... Yarrow 249 · • Thy Braes were Bonnie , Yarrow Stream 253 Annie o ' Lochroyan Binnorie 255 • 260 Lambert Linkin Reedisdale and Wise William Sir James the Rose Fair Annie . Mary Hamilton 266 272 276 280 285 • · Lord Randal Willie , Doo ...
... Yarrow 249 · • Thy Braes were Bonnie , Yarrow Stream 253 Annie o ' Lochroyan Binnorie 255 • 260 Lambert Linkin Reedisdale and Wise William Sir James the Rose Fair Annie . Mary Hamilton 266 272 276 280 285 • · Lord Randal Willie , Doo ...
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... Yarrow . This is highly improbable , because Newark was always a royal fortress . Indeed , the late excellent antiquarian , Mr Plummer , Sheriff - depute of Selkirkshire , remembered the insignia of the unicorns , & c . , so often ...
... Yarrow . This is highly improbable , because Newark was always a royal fortress . Indeed , the late excellent antiquarian , Mr Plummer , Sheriff - depute of Selkirkshire , remembered the insignia of the unicorns , & c . , so often ...
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amang ancient ballads Andrew Lammie Annie auld baith ballad Binnorie blude bonnie Annie bonnie mill-dams bower braes bride brother busk castle Clerk Saunders copy daughter doun Earl Ettricke Forest Fair Janet fair Scotland father dear fause Fause Foodrage frae Fyvie gane gang Gilderoy green gude hadna hame hand heart Janet Johnnie king king's kirk kiss knee knight lady fair Lady Maisry ladye land Lord Lord Randal maidens maun merrymen milk-white minstrel Minstrelsy mother MOTHERWELL nae mair nane ne'er never o'er Outlaw owre poetry recitation ride sall says Scot Scotland Scottish Sir Cauline Sir Walter Scott sister song spak stanzas steed suld sweet sword ta'en thee thou Tiftie's traditionary true love Walter Scott waly weel Willie winna Yarrow ye maun ye'll yellow hair young young Benjie
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Page 124 - There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.
Page 32 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! 'I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 64 - And see not ye that bonny road, That winds about the fernie brae? That is the road to fair Elfland, Where thou and I this night maun gae. " But, Thomas, ye maun hold your tongue, Whatever ye may hear or see ; For, if you speak word in Elflyn land, Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie.
Page 32 - To send us out, at this time of the year, "To sail upon the sea? "Be it wind, be it weet, be it hail, be it sleet, "Our ship must sail the faem; "The king's daughter of Noroway, "Tis we must fetch her hame...
Page 206 - Lady Nancy she died as it might be to-day, Lord Lovel he died as to-morrow ; Lady Nancy she died out of pure, pure grief, Lord Lovel he died out of sorrow, sorrow, Lord Lovel he died out of sorrow. Lady Nancy was laid in St. Pancras...
Page 126 - Bring water from the well; For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Page 205 - O they rade on, and on they rade, And a' by the light of the moon, Until they came to yon wan water, And there they lighted down.
Page 31 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, , To sail this new ship of mine?" O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the king's right knee, — "Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor, That ever sailed the sea.
Page 64 - Ye'll ne'er get back to your ain countrie.' 0 they rade on, and farther on, And they waded through rivers aboon the knee, And they saw neither sun nor moon, But they heard the roaring of the sea. It was mirk mirk night, and there was nae stern star light, And they waded through red blude to the knee; For a...
Page 64 - Rins through the springs o' that countrie. Syne they came on to a garden green, And she pu'd an apple frae a tree * — " Take this for thy wages, true Thomas ; It will give thee the tongue that can never lie." —