A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

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The ballad is divided into two parts ; the first is an address
by one of the lovers to the young lady,—the second is
the lamentation of the disconsolate Fleming over the
grave of his beloved fair one.]
O !
PART FIRST.
sweetest sweet, and fairest fair,
Of birth and worth beyond compare^
Thou art the causer of my care,
Since first I loved thee.
Yet God hath given to me a mind.
The which to thee shall prove as kind.
As any one that thou shalt find.
Of high or low degree.
The shallowest water makes maist din,
The deadest pool the deepest linn.
The richest man least truth within,
Tho' he preferred be.
Yet nevertheless I am content.
And never a whit my love repent.
But think the time was a' weel spent>
Tho' I disdained be.
O !
Helen sweet, and maist complete^.
My captive spirit's at thy feet
TKinks thou still fit thus for to treat
Thy captive cmelly ?
!