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294 MINSTRELSY OF
" What's tliat thou says, thou hnimer loon ?
" How dares thou stand to speak to me ?
" If thou do not end tliis quarrel soon,
" There's iny right liand thou shalt fight with me."
Then Christie Graeme's to his chamber gane,
To consider weel what then should be ;
Whether he suld fight with his auld father.
Or with his billie Bewick, he.
" If I suld kill my billie dear,
" God's blessing I shall never win ;
" But if I strike at my auld father,
" I think 'twald be a mortal sin.
" But if I kill my billie dear,
" It is God's will ! so let it be.
" But I make a vow, ere I gang frae hame,
" That I shall be the next man's die."
Then he's put on's back a gude ould jack,
And on his head a cap of steel,
And sword and buckler by his side ;
O gin he did not become them weel !
" What's tliat thou says, thou hnimer loon ?
" How dares thou stand to speak to me ?
" If thou do not end tliis quarrel soon,
" There's iny right liand thou shalt fight with me."
Then Christie Graeme's to his chamber gane,
To consider weel what then should be ;
Whether he suld fight with his auld father.
Or with his billie Bewick, he.
" If I suld kill my billie dear,
" God's blessing I shall never win ;
" But if I strike at my auld father,
" I think 'twald be a mortal sin.
" But if I kill my billie dear,
" It is God's will ! so let it be.
" But I make a vow, ere I gang frae hame,
" That I shall be the next man's die."
Then he's put on's back a gude ould jack,
And on his head a cap of steel,
And sword and buckler by his side ;
O gin he did not become them weel !
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > J. F. Campbell Collection > Minstrelsy of the Scottish border > Volume 2 > (306) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/80618363 |
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| Description | Vol. II . |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.2.d.18 |
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| Description | Consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. |
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| Shelfmark | Cam.2.d.17-19 |
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| Description | Volumes from a collection of 610 books rich in Highland folklore, Ossianic literature and other Celtic subjects. Many of the books annotated by John Francis Campbell of Islay, who assembled the collection. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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