The lady she feasted them, carried them ben;She laughd wi the men that her baron had slain.
The lady she feasted them, carried them ben;She laughd wi the men that her baron had slain.
The lady she feasted them, carried them ben;She laughd wi the men that her baron had slain.
The lady she feasted them, carried them ben;
She laughd wi the men that her baron had slain.
171. on you: could you.
172. yates.
192. shoudna.
“Poetical justice requires that I should subjoin the concluding stanza of the fragment, which could not be introduced into the text; as the reader cannot be displeased to learn that the unworthy spouse of the amiable, affectionate, and spirited baron of Brackley was treated by her unprincipled gallant as she deserved, and might have expected:
Inverey spak a word, he spak it wrang;‘My wife and my bairns will be thinking lang.’‘O wae fa ye, Inverey! ill mat ye die!First to kill Brackley, and then to slight me.’
Inverey spak a word, he spak it wrang;‘My wife and my bairns will be thinking lang.’‘O wae fa ye, Inverey! ill mat ye die!First to kill Brackley, and then to slight me.’
Inverey spak a word, he spak it wrang;‘My wife and my bairns will be thinking lang.’
Inverey spak a word, he spak it wrang;
‘My wife and my bairns will be thinking lang.’
‘O wae fa ye, Inverey! ill mat ye die!First to kill Brackley, and then to slight me.’
‘O wae fa ye, Inverey! ill mat ye die!
First to kill Brackley, and then to slight me.’
D.
Title, 11, etc.Breachell.Perhaps miscopied by Skene fromBreachlie;and soCrigeran,121, forCrigevar.
172. at thee.