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

LORD JOHN
Is evidently a different version of the ballad of " The
Broomfield Hill" published in the Border Minstrelsy,
vol. 2, p. 244.
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" I'll wager, I'll wager," says Lord John,
A hundred merks and ten,
That ye winna gae to the bonnie broom-fields,
And a maid return again."
"But I'll lay a wager wi' you, Lord John,
A' your merks oure again,
That I'll gae alane to the bonnie broom-fields,
And a maid return again."
Then Lord John mounted his grey steed,
And his hound wi' his bells sae bricht,