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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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Sir Hugh le Blond

SIR ALDINGAR—C

[_]

Dr Joseph Robertson's Note-Book, January 1, 1830, p.6.

1

They've putten her into prison strang,
A twalmon lang and mair,
Until the mice and wild rattens
Did tear her yallow hair.
[OMITTED]

2

‘One shake o your han,’ said Rodingham,
‘One shak o your han gie me:’
‘I cam na here for shaking hans,
But to fight maist desperatelie.’

3

‘It's nae ten strucken on the clock,
Nor eleven on the bell:’
‘We'll doe ill deeds anew ere night,
Tho it were strucken twall.’