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

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It's there they got a bonnie lad-bairn,*
But it's life it was awa\
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"Rise up, rise up, Mary Hamilton,
Rise up and dress ye fine,
For you maun gang to Edinbruch,
And stand afore the nine.
Ye'll no put on the dowie black,
Nor yet the dowie brown;
But ye'll put on the robes o' red,
To sheen thro' Edinbruch town."
" I'll no put on the dowie black,
Nor yet the dowie brown;
But I'll put on the robes o' red,
To sheen thro' Edinbruch town."
As they gaed thro' Edinbruch town,
And down by the Nether-bow,
There war monie a lady fair
Siching and crying, " Och ! howf !"
* Lad-bairn—maii-ohild. f
Och! how!—oh! ala* !