She threw hersell ower the castle-wa', Edinbro', Edin bro', She threw hersell ower the castle-wa', Stirling for aye; She threw hersell ower the castle-wa', There I wat she got a fa', So proper Saint Johnston stands fair upon Tay. 70 THE MINISTER'S DOCHTER O' NEWARKE. See p. 262. FROM Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, Percy Society, vol. xvii. p. 51. This is the same ballad, with trifling variations, as The Minister's Daughter of New York, Buchan, ii. 217. THE Minister's dochter o' Newarke, Has fa'en in luve wi' her father's clerk, She courted him sax years and a day, She did her doun to the green woods gang, To spend awa' a while o' her time, She lent her back unto a thorn, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O; She's ta'en the ribbons frae her hair, Alane by the green burn sidie O. She's put them aneath a marble stane, Leukin' o'er her castel wa', Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, She spied twa bonny boys at the ba', Alane by the green burn sidie O. "O bonny babies, if ye were mine, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, I woud feed ye wi' the white bread and wine, "I wou'd feed ye with the ferra cow's milk, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, An' dress ye i' the finest silk,” Alane by the green burn sidie O. "O cruel mother, when we were thine, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, 15 20 25 30 35 We saw nane o' your bread and wine, Alane by the green burn sidie O. 40 "We saw nane o' your ferra cow's milk, Alane by the green burn sidie O. "O bonny babies, can ye tell me, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, What sort o' death for ye I maun dee,” Alane by the green burn sidie O. "Yes, cruel mother, we'll tell to thee, "Seven years a fool i' the woods, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, "Seven years a fish i' the floods, Alane by the green burn sidie O. "Seven years to be a church bell, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, Seven years a porter i' hell,” Alane by the green burn sidie 0. "Welcome, welcome, fool i' the wood, "Welcome, welcome, to be a church bell, Hey wi' the rose and the lindie O, But heavens keep me out o' hell," Alane by the green burn sidie 0. 45 50 55 60 BONDSEY AND MAISRY. See From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, ii. 265. "O COME along wi' me, brother, And we'll gae seek our sister Maisry, The eldest brother he stepped in, He stepped to the knee; Then out he jump'd upo' the bank, The second brother he stepped in, He stepped to the quit; Then out he jump'd upo' the bank, Says, "This water's wond'rous deep." When the third brother stepped in, He stepped to the chin; Out he got, and forward wade, For fear o' drowning him. 5 10 15 |