6.  “I winna put on my robes o’ black,
          Nor yet my robes o’ brown;
        But I’ll put on my robes o’ white,
          To shine through Edinbro town.”

     7.  When she gaed up the Cannogate,
          She laugh’d loud laughters three;
        But when she cam down the Cannogate
          The tear blinded her ee.

     8.  When she gaed up the Parliament stair,
          The heel cam aff her shee[81];
        And lang or she cam down again
          She was condemn’d to dee.

9.  When she cam down the Cannogate,
The Cannogate sae free,
Many a ladie look’d o’er her window,
Weeping for this ladie.

10.  “Make never meen[82] for me,” she says,
“Make never meen for me;
Seek never grace frae a graceless face,
For that ye’ll never see.”

11.  “Bring me a bottle of wine,” she says,
“The best that e’er ye hae,
That I may drink to my weil-wishers,
And they may drink to me.”

12.  “And here’s to the jolly sailor lad
That sails upon the faem;
But let not my father nor mother get wit
But that I shall come again.”

13.  “And here’s to the jolly sailor lad
That sails upon the sea;
But let not my father nor mother get wit
O’ the death that I maun dee.”

14.  “Oh little did my mother think,
The day she cradled me,
What lands I was to travel through,
What death I was to dee.”

15.  “Oh little did my father think,
The day he held up[83] me,
What lands I was to travel through,
What death I was to dee.”

16.  “Last night I wash’d the Queen’s feet,
And gently laid her down;
And a’ the thanks I’ve gotten the nicht
To be hangd in Edinbro town!”

17.  “Last nicht there was four Maries,
The nicht there’ll be but three;
There was Marie Seton, and Marie Beton,
And Marie Carmichael, and me.”

[Footnote 79:  Gold.]

[Footnote 80:  Weep.]

[Footnote 81:  Shoe.]

[Footnote 82:  Moan.]

[Footnote 83:  Held up, lifted up, recognized as his lawful
child,—­a world-wide and ancient ceremony.]

     BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL

     1.  High upon Highlands,
          and low upon Tay,
        Bonnie George Campbell
          rade out on a day.

     2.  Saddled and bridled
          and gallant rade he;
        Hame cam his guid horse,
          but never cam he.

     3.  Out cam his auld mither
          greeting fu’ sair,
        And out cam his bonnie bride
          riving her hair.

     4.  Saddled and bridled
          and booted rade he;
        Toom[84] hame cam the saddle,
          but never came he.

     5.  “My meadow lies green,
          and my corn is unshorn,
        My barn is to build,
          and my babe is unborn.”