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

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"Ye'U turn about, Earl Richard,
And mak some mair o' me *
:
An ye mak me lady o' ae puir plow,
I can mak you laird o' three."
" If ye be the Earl o' Stockford's dochter,
As I've some thouchts ye be,
Aft hae I waited at your father's yettf
But your face I ne'er could see."
Whan they cam to her father's yett,
She tirled on the pin:}:;
And an auld belly-blind§ man was sittin' there
As they were entering in:—
"The meetest marriage," the belly-blind did cry,
"Atween the ane and the ither;
Atween the Earl o' Stockford's ae dochter,
And the queen o' England's brither."
* Mali some mair o' me—show me more kindness, and attention.
f Yett—gate. \ Tirled on the pin—twirled the latch or door-pin.
§ Belly-blind— stone-blind.