The next an' step that she wade in, She wadit to the knee ; Says she, "I cou'd wide farther in, If I my love cou'd see.” The next an' step that she wade in, The deepest pot in Clyde's water 110 "You've had a cruel mither, Willie, 116 And I have had anither; But we shall sleep in Clyde's water, Like sister an' like brither." WILLIE'S DROWNED IN GAMERY. FROM Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, i. 245. A fragment, exhibiting some differences, is among those ballads of Buchan which are published in the Percy Society's volumes, xvii. 66. Four stanzas, of a superior cast, upon the same story, are printed in the Tea-Table Miscellany, (ii. 141.) Rare Willy drown'd in Yarrow. "Willy's rare, and Willy's fair, And Willy's wond'rous bonny; "Yestreen I made my bed fu' braid, "O came you by yon water-side? She sought him east, she sought him west, She sought him braid and narrow; Syne in the cleaving of a craig, She found him drown'd in Yarrow. These stanzas furnished the theme to Logan's Braes of Yarrow. "O WILLIE is fair, and Willie is rare, And Willie is wond'rous bonny; And Willie says he'll marry me, "O ye'se get James, or ye'se get George, "O what care I for James or George, Or yet for bonny Peter? I dinna value their love a leek, "O Willie has a bonny hand, And dear but it is bonny; 10 What wou'd ye do wi' Willie ? " "Willie's fair, and Willie's rare, And Willie's wond'rous bonny; There's nane wi' him that can compare, I love him best of ony.” On Wednesday, that fatal day, The people were convening; Besides all this, threescore and ten, To gang to the bridesteel wi' him. "Ride on, ride on, my merry men a', "Your Peggy she's but bare fifteen, And ye are scarcely twenty; The water o' Gamery is wide and braid, My heavy curse gang wi' thee! Then they rode on, and further on, The wind was loud, the stream was proud, And wi' the stream gaed Willie. 25 30 35 40 Then they rode on, and further on, When they were settled at that place, 45 Then out it speaks the bride hersell, That shou'd gie me fair wedding? Then out it speaks his brother John, The stream was strong, the clerk rade wrong, She put her hand up to her head, Where were the ribbons many; She rave them a', let them down fa,' And straightway ran to Gamery. She sought it up, she sought it down, There she got her deary. 56 60 |