Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

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4< Ye're welcome, ye're welcome, dear father," she
" Ye're welcome hame to your ain, [says,
For I hae been sick, and very, very sick,
Thinking lang for your coming hame.
" O pardon, O pardon, dear father," she says,
A pardon ye'll grant me."
" Na pardon, na pardon, my dochter," he says,
" Na pardon I'll grant thee.
" O is it to a man of micht,
Or to a man of mean?
Or is it to onie of thae rank robbers,
That I sent hame frae Spain?"
" It is not to a man of micht,
Nor to a man of mean;
But it is to Thomas o' Winesberrie,
And for him I suffer pain."
" If it be to Thomas o' Winesberrie,
As I trust well it be,
Before I either eat or drink,
Hie hangit sail he be."