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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Edited by Francis James Child.

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THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER—L
  
  
  
  
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THE KNIGHT AND SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER—L

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Motherwell's Note-Book, p. 1, recited by Miss Brown, of Glasgow, after a blind aunt.

[OMITTED]

1

I learned it in my father's bower,
And I learned it for the better,
That every water I coudna wade,
I swam it like an otter.
With my low silver ee.

2

‘I learned it in my father's bower,
And I learned it for my weel,
That every water I coudna wade,
I swam it like an eel.’

3

And he cam hirpling on a stick,
And leaning on a tree:
‘Be he cripple, or be he blind,
The same man is he.’