Popular Ballads and Songs: From Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions, Volume 1Robert Jamieson A. Constable and Company, 1806 - Ballads, Danish |
Common terms and phrases
Andrew Lammie bairn baith ballad basyn Bee-Ho'm bell Binnorie bonny birdie bonny boy bonny mill-dams bower Brackley brother Burd Ellen cald Childe Maurice Clerk Saunders Clyde's water copy dear gin door dowie Edinburgh editor fair Annie fair Kirkconnel-lee fast fause frae Fyvie gane gang gi'e Gil Morris gin ye Glenkindie goud grows bonny wi gude ha'e ha'ena hand harpit heart heigh-ho hie downe I'se intill Inverey Jews Judæi kirk lady Maisry Lamkin lily gay lo'e LORD RANDAL maun mer-man mony mother nae mair nane ne'er never night nut-brown maid o'er Peggie poetry primrose spreads quod rue grows bonny sall sang says Scotish Scotland shoon sir Oluf sister song spak spede spreads so sweetly stanza steed Syne ta'en tell thee ther thou thyme wadna weel whan Whare winna wow for day wyll Ye'll young
Popular passages
Page 79 - Then up and gat the seventh o' them, And never a word spake he ; But he has striped his bright brown brand Out through Clerk Saunders
Page 41 - But mine o' the diamonds fine. 'Sae open the door, now, love Gregor, And open it wi' speed; Or your young son, that is in my arms, For cald will soon be dead.
Page 15 - Woe worth you, woe worth, my mery men all You were nere borne for my good ; Why did you not offer to stay my hand, When you see me wax so wood...
Page 74 - I will gi'e up this English lord, Till my young babe be born ; But the never a day nor hour langer, Though my life should be forlorn.
Page 152 - Gae hame, gae hame, my mither dear, Prepare my winding 'sheet, And at the back o merry Lincoln The morn I will you meet.
Page 149 - He kick'd the ba' with his right foot, And catch'd it wi' his knee ; And throuch-and-thro' the Jew's window, He gar'd the bonny ba' flee. He's doen him to the Jew's castell, And walk'd it round about ; And there he saw the Jew's daughter At the window looking out "Throw down the ba', ye Jew's daughter, Throw down the ba' to me !" " Never a bit," says the Jew's daughter,
Page 266 - Where many I found earning of pence, But none at all once regarded me. I gave them my plaint upon my knee; They liked it well when they had it read, But lacking Money I could not be sped. In Westminster Hall I found out one Which went in a long gown of ray, {82a} I crouched and kneeled before him anon, For Mary's love of help I him pray. "I wot not what thou mean'st...
Page 205 - I wish I were where Helen lies ! Night and day on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, For her sake that died for me.
Page 157 - Our gude ship sails the morn." " Now ever alake, my master dear, I fear a deadly storm ! " I saw the new moon, late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm ; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 100 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.