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not flay in bonny Caftle- Gordon, But they
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would go to bonny Aberdeen.
They had not been in Aberdeen
A twelvemonth and a day,
Till lady Jean fell in love with capt.^Dgilvie,
And away with him fhe would gae.
Word came to the duke of Gordon,
In the chamber where he lay,
Lady Jean has fell in love with capt. Ogilvie,
And away with him fhe would gae.
" Go faddle me the black horfe,
And you'll ride on the grey ;
And I will ride to bonny Aberdeen,
Where I have been many a day."
dom of Gordon was not created till the year 1684; fo that,
if the ballad be older, inftead of "the duke of Gordon,"
the original reading muft have been '* the earl of Huntley.'*
As for Alexander Ogilvie, he appears to have fucceeded his
father, fir Walter Ogilvie, jn the barony of Boyne, about
3560, and to have dyed in 1606: this lady Jean being
his firft wife, by whom he feems to have had no iffue. See
Gordons Hiftory of the Gordons, and Douglas's Peerage,
and Baronage.