‘I wish her anes as sair a heartAs she’s gien me the day.’
‘I wish her anes as sair a heartAs she’s gien me the day.’
‘I wish her anes as sair a heartAs she’s gien me the day.’
‘I wish her anes as sair a heart
As she’s gien me the day.’
Mr Clyne did not fail to observe that Father Blakhal has recorded of Lady Melgum that he had often heard her say that she had never loved anybody but her husband, and never would love another (Narration, p. 92). This testimony, if not decisive, may be considered not less cogent as to the matter of fact than anything in ‘Young Tolquhon’ to the contrary. But it may be that stanza 24 became attached to the Frendraught ballad in consequence of the coexistence of this or some similar ballad of Young Tolquhon.