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

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But set your love on anither, kind sir,
Set it not on me, O,
For I am not fit to be your bride,
And your hure I'll never be, O.
My father he is a shepherd mean,
Keeps sheep on yonder hill, O,
And ye may gae and speir at him,
For I am at his will, O."
Drum is to her father gane,
Keeping his sheep on yon hill, O ;
And he has gotten his consent
That the may was at his will, O.
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" But my dochter can neither read nor write,
She was ne'er brought up at scheel,* O;
But weel can she milk cow and ewe,
And mak a kebbuckf weel, O.
She'll win:}: in your barn at bear-seed time,
Cast out your muck at Yule,§ O,
* Scheel—the Aberdeenshire pronunciation of school.
f Kebbuck—cheese. \ Win—work. § Yule— Christmas.