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There waur aucht an forty nobles

GLENLOGIE, OR, JEAN O BETHELNIE—D

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Harris MS., fol. 17; learned from Mrs harris before 1832.

1

There waur aucht an forty nobles rade to the king's ha,
But bonnie Glenlogie was the flour o them a'.

2

There waur aucht an forty nobles rade to the king's dine,
But bonnie Glenlogie was the flour o thrice nine.

3

Bonnie Jeanie Melville cam trippin doun the stair,
An whan she saw Glenlogie her hairt it grew sair.

4

[OMITTED]
‘He's of the gay Gordons, his name it is John.’

5

‘Oh, Logie! Oh, Logie! Oh, Logie!’ said she,
‘If I get na Glenlogie, I surely will dee.’

6

He turned him aboot, as the Gordons do a',
Says, I thank you, Lady Jeanie, but I'm promised awa.

7

She called on her maidens her hands for to take,
An the rings from her fingers she did them a' break.

8

‘Oh, what is my lineage, or what is my make.
That such a fine lady suld dee for my sake?’

9

Such a pretty wedding, as I have been told,
An bonnie Jeanie Melville was scarce sixteen years old.