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(452) Page 444 - False love, and ha'e you played me this
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SONGS OF SCOTLAND.
FALSE LOVE, AND HA'E YOU PLAYED ME THIS ?
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sim-mer, 'mid the flow-ers? I sail re -pay thee
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False love, and ha'e you played me this,
In simmer, 'mid the flowers ?
I sail repay thee back again,
In winter, 'mid the showers.
But again, dear love, and again, dear love,
"Will ye not turn again '?
As ye look to other women,
Shall I to other men.
This romantic fragment appears in Herd's Collection. In Mr
Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads (1827) there is one entitled
The Gardener, in which a young man of that profession entreats
the love of a young lady by promising her a dress made of his
best flowers. Her answer is as follows :

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