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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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There waur aucht an forty nobles

GLENLOGIE, OR, JEAN O BETHELNIE—D

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Harris MS., fol. 17; learned from Mrs harris before 1832.

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There waur aucht an forty nobles rade to the king's ha,
But bonnie Glenlogie was the flour o them a'.

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There waur aucht an forty nobles rade to the king's dine,
But bonnie Glenlogie was the flour o thrice nine.

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Bonnie Jeanie Melville cam trippin doun the stair,
An whan she saw Glenlogie her hairt it grew sair.

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[OMITTED]
‘He's of the gay Gordons, his name it is John.’

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‘Oh, Logie! Oh, Logie! Oh, Logie!’ said she,
‘If I get na Glenlogie, I surely will dee.’

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He turned him aboot, as the Gordons do a',
Says, I thank you, Lady Jeanie, but I'm promised awa.

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She called on her maidens her hands for to take,
An the rings from her fingers she did them a' break.

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‘Oh, what is my lineage, or what is my make.
That such a fine lady suld dee for my sake?’

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Such a pretty wedding, as I have been told,
An bonnie Jeanie Melville was scarce sixteen years old.