A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

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LADY MAISRY.
[This fine ballad is very old. It relates a melancholy instance^
of enmity in a young gentleman to his sister, because she
was betrothed to an English baron, to whom she is witk
child ; when the young man learns this, he sternly demands
of her to forego her lover's company, which
she obstinately refuses to do ; on this he commands his
men to tie her to a stake and bum her ; in the mean
time her lover receives intimation of her danger, and
hastens to her relief, but before he reaches her father's
house she is nearly dead ; the poem concludes with his
threatening vengeance on all her relations.]
The young lords o' the north country
Have all a-wooing gane.
To win the love of Lady Maisry ;
But o' them she wou d hae nane.
O, thae hae sought her. Lady Maisry^,
Wi' broaches, and wi' rings ;
And they hae coui'ted her. Lady Maisry.»
Wi' a' kin kind of things.