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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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365

THE GAY GOSHAWK—F

[_]

From Miss Margaret Reburn, as sung in County Meath, Ireland, about 1860.

[OMITTED]

1

She got three drops of boiling lead,
And dropped them on her hand:
‘Oh and alas, my daughter dear,
I'd rather all my land!’

2

She got three drops of boiling lead,
And dropped them on her chin:
‘Oh and alas, my daughter dear,
There is no life within!’

3

She got three drops of boiling lead,
And dropped them on her toe:
‘Oh and alas, my daughter dear,
To fair Scotland you must go!’
[OMITTED]

4

‘Give me a cake of the new made bread,
And a cup of the new made wine,
For for your sake, Lord Thomas,’ she said,
‘I fasted those days nine.’