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

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She'll saddle your steed in time o' need,
And draw aff your boots hersell, O."
"Have not I no clergymen?
Pay I no clergy fee, O?
I'll scheel her as I think fit,
And as I think weel to be, O.
I'll learn your lassie to read and write,
And I'll put her to the scheel, O;
She'll neither need to saddle my steed,
Nor draw aff my boots hersell, O.
But wha will bake my bridal bread,
Or brew my bridal ale, O;
And wha will welcome my bonnie bride,
Is mair than I can tell, O."
Drum is to the hielands gane,
For to mak a' ready,
And a' the gentry round about,
Cried, " Yonder's Drum and his lady
Peggy Coutts is a very bonnie bride,
And Drum is a wealthy laddie,
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