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

CLERK SAUNDERS.
Thefollowing is the North Country version of this
popular and pathetic ballad. It is destitute ofthe con-
cluding part which follows the death of the lovers, as
given in the l Border Minstrelsy.'
It was a sad arid a rainy nicht,
As ever rain'd frae toun to toun,
Clerk Saunders and his lady gay,
They were in the fields sae broun.
k A bed, a bed," Clerk Saunders cried,
" A bed, a bed, let me lie doun
For I am sae weet, and sae wearie,
That I canna gae, nor ride frae toun."
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