"Zou're neither laird nor lord," she says, "Bot the king that wears the crown; 30 There is not a knight in fair Scotland, Bot to thee maun bow down."
For a' that she could do or say, Appeasd he wade nae bee; Bot for the words which she had said, 35 Zoung Waters he maun dee.
They hae taen zoung Waters, and Put fetters to his feet; They hae taen zoung Waters, and Thrown him in dungeon deep. 40
"Aft I have ridden thro' Stirling town, In the wind bot and the weit; Bot I neir rade thro' Stirling town Wi' fetters at my feet.
"Aft have I ridden thro' Stirling town, 45 In the wind bot and the rain; Bot I neir rade thro' Stirling town Neir to return again."
They hae taen to the heiding-hill His zoung son in his craddle; 50 And they hae taen to the heiding-hill His horse bot and his saddle.
They hae taen to the heiding-hill His lady fair to see; And for the words the queen had spoke 55 Zoung Waters he did dee.
This, says Motherwell, "is probably a lament for one of the adherents of the house of Argyle, who fell in the battle of Glenlivat, stricken on Thursday, the third day of October, 1594 years." It is printed, somewhat differently, in Smith's _Scottish Minstrel_, v. 42. Finlay gives eight lines of this ballad in the Preface to his first volume, p. xxxiii.
Hie upon Hielands, And low upon Tay, Bonnie George Campbell Rade out on a day. Saddled and bridled 5 And gallant rade he; Hame cam his gude horse, But never cam he!
Out cam his auld mither Greeting fu' sair, 10 And out cam his bonnie bride Rivin' her hair. Saddled and bridled And booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, 15 But never cam he!
"My meadow lies green, And my corn is unshorn; My barn is to big, And my babie's unborn." 20 Saddled and bridled And booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, But never cam he!
The following is believed to be a correct account of the various printed forms of this extremely popular ballad. In the second edition of Herd's _Scottish Songs_ (1776) appeared a fragment of eighteen stanzas, called _Lammikin_, embellished in a puerile style by some modern hand. Jamieson published the story in a complete and authentic shape in his _Popular Ballads_, in 1806. Finlay's collection (1808) furnishes us with two more copies, the first of which (ii. 47) is made up in part of Herd's fragment, and the second (ii. 57) taken from a MS. "written by an old lady." Another was given, from recitation, in Motherwell's _Minstrelsy_, (1827,) with the more intelligible title of _Lambert Linkin_. An English fragment, called _Long Lonkin_, taken down from the recitation of an old woman, is said to have been inserted by Miss Landon, in the _Drawing-Room Scrap-Book_, for 1837. This was republished in Richardson's _Borderer's Table-Book_, 1846, vol. viii. 410, and the editor of that miscellany, who ought to have learned to be skeptical in such matters, urges the circumstantial character of local tradition as strong evidence that the real scene of the cruel history was in Northumberland. Lastly, we have to note a version resembling Motherwell's, styled _Bold Rankin_, printed in _A New Book of Old Ballads_, (p. 73,) and in Whitelaw's _Book of Scottish Ballads_, (p. 246,) and an imperfect ballad (_Long Lankyn_) in _Notes and Queries_, New Series, ii. 324.