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

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Or hae ye onie education.
To dance alang wi' me?"
" I was na gentle gotten, madam,
Nor was I gentle born;
Neither hae I gerss growing
Nor hae I onie corn.
" I hae na onie lands or rents,
Lying at libertie;
Nor hae I onie education,
To dance alang wi' thee."
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Whan the marriage it was oure,
And ilk ane took their horse,
"It never sat a beggar's brat,
At na knicht's back to be."
He lap on ae milk-white steed,
And she lap on anither,
And syne the twa rade out the way,
Like sister and like brither.
The ladie met wi' a beggar-wife,
And gied her half o' crown