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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

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THE FAIR FLOWER OF NORTHUMBERLAND—D

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Motherwell's MS., p. 102.

1

She's gane down to her father's stable,
O my dear, and my love that she wan
She's taen out a black steed baith sturdy and able,
And she's away to fair Scotland.

2

When they came to Scotland bridge,
‘Light off, you whore, from my black steed,
And go your ways back to Northumberland.’

3

‘O take me by the body so meek,
And throw me in the water so deep,
For I daurna gae back to Northumberland.’

4

‘I'll no take thee by the body so meek,
Nor throw thee in the water so deep;
Thou may go thy ways back to Northumberland.’

5

‘Take me by the body so small,
And throw me in yon bonny mill-dam,
For I daurna gae back to Northumberland.’