"Lie still, lie still a little wee while, Lie still but if we may; 45 Gin my mother should miss us when she wakes, She'll gae mad ere it be day." O it's they've taen up their mother's mantil, 50 CHILDE VYET. FIRST printed in a complete form in Maidment's North Countrie Garland, p. 24. The same editor contributed a slightly different copy to Motherwell's Minstrelsy, (p. 173.) An inferior version is furnished by Buchan, i. 234, and Jamieson has published a fragment on the same story, here given in the Appendix. LORD INGRAM and Childe Vyet, Childe Vyet and Lord Ingram, 4. The less was their bonheur. MOTHERWELL. 5 Lord Ingram woo'd the Lady Maiserey, Lord Ingram woo'd the Lady Maiserey, Lord Ingram wooed the Lady Maiserey, With leave of all her kin; And every one gave full consent, But she said no, to him. Lord Ingram wooed the Lady Maiserey, Childe Vyet wooed the Lady Maiserey, Among the sheets so sma'. Now it fell out upon a day, She was dressing her head, That ben did come her father dear, "Get up now, Lady Maiserey, Put on your wedding gown, For Lord Ingram will be here, Your wedding must be done!" "I'd rather be Childe Vyet's wife, 10 15 20 25 50 "I'd rather be Childe Vyet's wife, With him to beg my bread, Before I'd be Lord Ingram's wife, To wear the gold so red. "Where will I get a bonny boy, "O here, I am the boy," says one, "Will win gold to my fee, And carry away any letter, 35 40 To Childe Vyet from thee.” And when he found the bridges broke, 45 And when he found the grass growing, He hasten'd and he ran. And when he came to Vyet's castle, He did not knock nor call, But set his bent bow to his breast, And lightly leaped the wall; 50 The first line that Childe Vyet read, 35 The next line that he looked on, "What ails my own brother," he says, "He'll not let my love be; But I'll send to my brother's bridal; "Take four and twenty bucks and ewes, And bid my love be blythe and glad, There was not a groom about that castle, And a' was blythe, and a' was glad, But Lady Maiserey was wi' wean. There was no cook about the kitchen, "Tween Mary Kirk and that castle, 60 65 70 75 70, she was neen. Motherwell. 75, gold, 78, mould. N. C. G. |