A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

2GS
THE WEE WEE MAN.
A. FRAGMENT.
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[This fi-agment was first published in Herd's Collection.—
" Tiie original of this song," says Mr Ritson, ** is extant
in a Scotish or Northumbrian poem of Edward the First
or Second's time, preserved in the British Museum," from
whence it was copied and published by Mr Finlay of
Glasgow, in his Collection of Scotish Ballads, 1808.
Between a water and a wa'.
And there I sp3'ed a wee wee man.
And he was the least that e'er I saw.
His legs w^re scarce a shatlimont's * lengthy
And thick and thimber was his thigh
Between his brows there was a span,
And between his shoulders there was three.
He took np a meikle stane.
And he flang't t as far as I could see ;
Tliough I had been a Wallace wight^
I coudna iiften't to my knee.
* A measure of six inches in length. f Threw lu
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