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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

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VII.

189.

189 HOBIE NOBLE

190.

190 JAMIE TELFER OF THE FAIR DODHEAD

191.

191 HUGHIE GRAME

192.

192 THE LOCHMABEN HARPER

193.

193 THE DEATH OF PARCY REED

194.

194 THE LAIRD OF WARISTON

195.

195 LORD MAXWELL'S LAST GOODNIGHT

196.

196 THE FIRE OF FRENDRAUGHT

197.

197 JAMES GRANT

198.

198 BONNY JOHN SETON

199.

199 THE BONNIE HOUSE O AIRLIE

200.

200 THE GYPSY LADDIE

201.

201 BESSY BELL AND MARY GRAY

202.

202 THE BATTLE OF PHILIPHAUGH

203.

203 THE BARON OF BRACKLEY

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204.

204 JAMIE DOUGLAS

Lord Douglas; or, The Laird of Blackwood

Lady Douglas and Blackwood

The Laird o Blackwood

Lord Jamie Douglas

JAMIE DOUGLAS—M

Lord Jamie Douglas

205.

205 LOUDON HILL, OR, DRUMCLOG

206.

206 BOTHWELL BRIDGE

207.

207 LORD DELAMERE

208.

208 LORD DERWENTWATER

209.

210.

210 BONNIE JAMES CAMPBELL

211.

211 BEWICK AND GRAHAM

212.

212 THE DUKE OF ATHOLE'S NURSE

213.

213 SIR JAMES THE ROSE

214.

214 THE BRAES O YARROW

215.

215 RARE WILLIE DROWNED IN YARROW, OR, THE WATER O GAMRIE

216.

216 THE MOTHER'S MALISON, OR, CLYDE'S WATER

217.

217 THE BROOM OF COWDENKNOWS

218.

218 THE FALSE LOVER WON BACK

219.

219 THE GARDENER

220.

220 THE BONNY LASS OF ANGLESEY

221.

221 KATHARINE JAFFRAY

222.

222 BONNY BABY LIVINGSTON

223.

223 EPPIE MORRIE

224.

224 THE LADY OF ARNGOSK

225.

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36

Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight

LORD MAXWELL'S LAST GOODNIGHT—A

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Communicated to Percy by G. Paton, Edinburgh, December 4, 1778.

1

‘Good lord of the land, will you stay thane
About my faither's house,
And walk into these gardines green,
In my arms I'll the embraice.

2

‘Ten thousand times I'll kiss thy face;
Make sport, and let's be mery:’
‘I thank you, lady, fore your kindness;
Trust me, I may not stay with the.

3

‘For I have kil'd the laird Johnston;
I vallow not the feed;
My wiked heart did still incline;
He was my faither's dead.

4

‘Both night and day I did proced,
And a' on him revainged to be;
But now have I gotten what I long sowght,
Trust me, I may not stay with the.

5

‘Adue, Dumfriese, that proper place!
Fair well, Carlaurike faire!

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Adue the castle of the Trive,
And all my buldings there!

6

‘Adue, Lochmaben gaits so faire,
And the Langhm shank, where birks bobs bony!
Adue, my leady and only joy!
Trust me, I may not stay with the.

7

‘Adue, fair Eskdale, up and doun,
Wher my poor frends do duell!
The bangisters will beat them doun,
And will them sore compell.

8

‘I'll reveinge the cause mysell,
Again when I come over the sea;
Adue, my leady and only joy!
Fore, trust me, I may not stay with the.

9

‘Adue, Dumlanark! fals was ay,
And Closburn! in a band;
The laird of the Lag from my faither fled
When the Jhohnstones struek of his hand.

10

‘They wer three brethren in a band;
I pray they may never be merry;
Adue, my leady and only joy!
Trust me, I may not stay with the.

11

‘Adue, madam my mother dear,
But and my sister[s] two!
Fair well, Robin in the Orchet!
Fore the my heart is wo.

12

‘Adue, the lillie, and fair well, rose,
And the primros, spreads fair and bony!
Adue, my leady and only joy!
Fore, trust me, I may not stay with the.’

13

He took out a good gold ring,
Where at hang sygnets three:
‘Take thou that, my own kind thing,
And ay have mind of me.

14

‘Do not mary another lord
Agan or I come over the sea;
Adue, my leady and only joy!
For, trust me, I may not stay with the.’

15

The wind was fair, and the ship was clare,
And the good lord went away;
The most part of his frends was there,
Giving him a fair convoy.

16

They drank the wine, they did not spare,
Presentting in that good lord's sight;
Now he is over the floods so gray;
Lord Maxwell has te'n his last good-night.