Ancient And Modern Scottish Songs Heroic Ballads Etc volume 1
Ancient And Modern Scottish Songs Heroic Ballads Etc volume 1
David Herd
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But if I fave your fair body, The better you'll like me. " She's taen him to her fecret bower, Pinn'd with a filler-pin, And fhe's up to her higheil tower, To watch that none come in. She had na well gane up the flair, And entered in her tower, When four-and-twenty armed knights Came riding to the door. " Now, GOD you fave, my fair lady, I pray you tell to me, Saw you not a wounded knight Come riding by this way ? i66 SCOTS SONGS " Yes; bloody, bloody was his fword, And bloody were his hands ; ...But if the fleed he rides be good, He's pafl fair Scotland's flrands. Light down, light down, then, Gentlemen, And take fome bread and wine ; The better you will him purfue, When you mail lightly dine. " " We thank you for your bread, Lady, We thank you for your wine. I would gie thrice three thoufand pounds Your fair body was mine. " Then fhe's gane to her fecret bower, Her hufband dear to meet ; But out he drew his bloody fword, And wounded her very deep. " What aileth thee now, good my Lord, What aileth thee at me ?
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