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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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474

THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER—I

[_]

Communicated by Dr Thomas Davidson, from his own recollection; Aberdeenshire.

1

There was a shepherd's daughter,
Kept flocks on yonder hill,
And by there cam a courteous knight,
Wud fain and hae his will.
[OMITTED]

2

‘Some do ca me Jock,’ he said,
‘And some do ca me John,
But when I do ride i the king's high court,
Gulelmus is my name.’
[OMITTED]

3

And when she came to the kinges court
She tirled at the pin,
And wha was there but the king himsel,
To lat this fair maid in!

4

‘Now Christ you save, my lord,’ she said,
‘Now Christ you save and see;
There is a knicht into your court
This day has robbed me.

5

‘He's na robbed me o my silken purse,
Nor o my white money,
But he's robbed me o my maidenheid,
The flower o my bodie.’

6

‘O gin he be a single man,
Weel married sall ye be,
But an he be a married man,
He's hang upon a tree.’

7

Then he called up his merry men a',
By one, by two, and by three,
And William should a been the first,
But the hindmost man was he.

8

And he cam hirplin on a stick,
And blin upon an ee,
But sighand said that gay ladie,
That same man robbed me.
[OMITTED]

9

‘Gin I had drunk the wan water,
When I did drink the wine,
A cairdman's daughter
Should never be a true-love o mine.’

10

‘Maybe I'm a cairdman's daughter,
And maybe I am nane;
But when ye did come to good green wood,
Ye sud hae latten me alane.’

11

She set upon a milk-white steed,
An himsel on a dapple grey,
An she had as much lan in fair Scotlan
'S ye cud ride in a lang simmer's day.