"Nor I'll none of it have.

They were chosen out of shires three.

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This began on a Monday at morn,

In Cheviot the hills so hie;3

The child may rue that is unborn,
It was the more pitie.

The drivers through the woodės went,
For to rouse the deer;

Bowmen bickered upon the bent
With their broad arrows clear.

Then the wild through the woodės went,
On every side sheer;7

Greyhoundės through the grovės glent,
For to kill their deer.

This began in Cheviot the hills aboun,
Early on a Monnyn-day;8

By that it drew to the hour of noon,

A hundred fat harts dead there lay.
They blew a mort' upon the bent,
They assembled on sides sheer;
To the quarry then the Percy went,
To see the brittling 10 of the deer.
30 Remedy.

31 Prepare.

32 Twain.

27 Time.

29 Quickly.

10 Quartering, or cutting up.

Blast of the horn indicating the taking of the deer.

255

"Late late yestreen I saw the new moon, Wi the auld moon in her arm,

25

260

And I fear, I fear, my dear master, That we will come to harm."

O our Scots nobles were right loth,
To wet their cork-heeled shoon;
But lang or a' the play were played,
Their hats they swam aboon.

O lang, lang may the ladies sit,
Wi their fans into their hand,
Or ere they see Sir Patrick Spens
Come sailing to the land.

O lang, lang may the ladies stand,
Wi their gold kems in their hair,
Waiting for their ain dear lords,
For they'll see them na mair.

Half o'er, half o'er to Aberdour,

46 Clench. 50 Street.

47 Keep.

48 Fought.

$1 Better our ills.