A collection of ancient and modern Scottish ballads, etc

m.
ing, turned upon and pat hlin completely to the rout. One
hundred and twenty of liis men were killed, and himself,
his two sons, John and Adam, with an hundred men,
taken prisoners. Of Murray's troops none were killed.
Huntly being an old and extremely corpulent man, died
soon after he was taken, either from fatigue or grief; th-e
others were carried in triumph to Aberdeen, where John
Gordon was beheaded, three days after the battle; his
brother Adam was pardoned on account of his youth.
The ballad is in the Aberdeenshire dialect, and said to be
written by one Forbes, a schoolmaster at Mary-Culter
on Dee side, who has paid no regard to historical truth
in its composition.]
MuRN ye Heighlands, and murn ye Leighlands,
I trow ye hae meikle need ;
For the bonny burn of Corichie
His run this day wi' bleid.
Thi hopeful Laird of Finliter^
Erie Huntly's gallant son.
For the love he bare our beauteous Quine, *
His gart fair Scotland mone.
Hi liis braken his ward in Aberdene,
Throu dreid o' the fause Murry
And his gather't the gentle Gordone clan.
An' his father, auld Huntly.
Fain wad he tak our bonny guide Quine,
An' beare her awa wi' him
But Murry's slee wyles spoil't a* thi sporty
An' reft him o' lyfe and lim.
* Qaeen»
;
;