Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...
Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ... Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...
" Come doun, come doun, ye wylie parrot, Come doun into my hand; Your cage sail be o' the beaten gowd, When now it's but the wand." " I winna come doun, I canna come doun, I winna come doun to thee; For as ye've dune * to young Redin, Ye'll do the like to me; Ye'll thraw my head aff my hause-bane f And throw me in the sea." O there cam seekin young Redin, Monie a lord and knicht; And there cam seekin young Redin, Monie a ladie bricht. And they hae f til his true-love gane, Thinking he was wi' her; * Dune—.done. f Hause-bane—the collar-bone. j. Zfae—have. ,
" I hae na seen him, young Redin, Sin yesterday at noon; He turn'd his stately steed about, And hied him through the toun. '" But ye'll seek Clyde's water up and doun, Ye'll seek it out and in — I hae na seen him, young Redin, Sin yesterday at noon." — Then up bespak young Redin's mither, And a dowie woman was scho * ; " There's na a place in a' Clyde's water, But my son wad gae through." They've sought Clyde's water up and doun, They've sought it out and in, And the deepest place o' Clyde's water They fund young Redin in. Q white, white, war his wounds washen, As white as a linen clout: * Scho—-she, still used in Mearns-shire.
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" Come doun, come doun, ye wylie parrot,<br />
Come doun into my h<strong>and</strong>;<br />
Your cage sail be o' the beaten gowd,<br />
When now it's but the w<strong>and</strong>."<br />
" I winna come doun, I canna come doun,<br />
I winna come doun to thee;<br />
For as ye've dune * to young Redin,<br />
Ye'll do the like to me;<br />
Ye'll thraw my head aff my hause-bane f<br />
And throw me in the sea."<br />
O there cam seekin young Redin,<br />
Monie a lord <strong>and</strong> knicht;<br />
And there cam seekin young Redin,<br />
Monie a ladie bricht.<br />
And they hae f til his true-love gane,<br />
Thinking he was wi' her;<br />
* Dune—.done. f Hause-bane—the collar-bone. j. Zfae—have.<br />
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