Excerpt: ...He charges her with her fault, reviles her for 'drawing up with an English lord, ' and commands her to renounce him. She refuses, and is condemned to be burned. A bonny boy bears news of her plight to Lord William, who leaps to boot and saddle; but he arrives too late to save her, though he vows vengeance on all her kin, and promises to burn himself last of all. Burning was the penalty usually allotted in the romances to a girl convicted of unchastity. LADY MAISRY 1. The young lords o' the north country Have all ...
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Excerpt: ...He charges her with her fault, reviles her for 'drawing up with an English lord, ' and commands her to renounce him. She refuses, and is condemned to be burned. A bonny boy bears news of her plight to Lord William, who leaps to boot and saddle; but he arrives too late to save her, though he vows vengeance on all her kin, and promises to burn himself last of all. Burning was the penalty usually allotted in the romances to a girl convicted of unchastity. LADY MAISRY 1. The young lords o' the north country Have all a wooing gone, To win the love of Lady Maisry, But o' them she woud hae none. 2. O they hae courted Lady Maisry Wi' a' kin kind of things; An' they hae sought her Lady Maisry Wi' brotches an' wi' rings. 71 3. An' they ha' sought her Lady Maisry Frae father and frae mother; An' they ha' sought her Lady Maisry Frae sister an' frae brother. 4. An' they ha' follow'd her Lady Maisry Thro' chamber an' thro' ha'; But a' that they coud say to her, Her answer still was Na. 5. 5.1 'ha'd' = haud, hold. 'O ha'd your tongues, young men, ' she says, 'An' think nae mair o' me; For I've gi'en my love to an English lord, An' think nae mair o' me.' 6. Her father's kitchy-boy heard that, An ill death may he dee! An' he is on to her brother, As fast as gang coud he. 7. 'O is my father an' my mother well, But an' my brothers three? Gin my sister Lady Maisry be well, There's naething can ail me.' 8. 'Your father an' your mother is well, But an' your brothers three; Your sister Lady Maisry's well, So big wi' bairn gangs she.' 9. 9.2 'mailison, ' curse. 'Gin this be true you tell to me, My mailison light on thee! But gin it be a lie you tell, You sal be hangit hie.' 72 10. He's done him to his sister's bow'r, Wi' meikle doole an' care; An' there he saw her Lady Maisry Kembing her yallow hair. 11. 11.1 'is aught, ' owns. 'O wha is aught that...
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