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" There came a token frae your grace,
Has taen the laird away frae me."
" Hast thou played me that, Carraichael ?" he said ;
" And hast thou played me that ?" quo' he ;
" The morn, therefore, at twelve o'clock,
Your men and you shall hangit be."
" Ah, na ! fie, na !" then quoth the queen ;
" Fie, my deir love I this canna be :
If ye be gaun to hang them a'.
Indeed ye maun begin wi' me."
Carmichael is gane to Margaret's bowir,
Even as fast as he micht drie :
" O if young Logie be within.
Tell him to come and speik with me 1"
May Margaret turned her round about ;
I wot a loud lauch lauchit she :
'< The egg is chippit ; the bird is flown ;
Ye'll see nae mair o' young Logie." ^
The tane is shippit at the pier o' Leith,
The tother at the Queen's Ferrie ;
And now the lady has gotten her luve,
The winsome young Laird o' Logie ! *
* This ballad first appeared, under the title of " The Laird of Ochil-
tree," in Herd's Collection. In the Border Minstrelsy appeared another
version, under the title of " The Laird o' Logie ;" and to it Mr Motherwell
has latterly added a stanza from recitation. In the present edition, an at-
tempt is made to combine the various incidents of both of these versions ;
the queen's application for mercy being taken from Herd's, while the ex-
pedient by which the hero is eventually liberated, is adopted from Sir Wal-
ter Scott's. Thus, the present version, associating the varieties of other
two, is considerably longer thau either.