Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) / Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition

The songs, to savage virtue dear, That won of yore the public ear, Ere Polity, sedate and sage, Had quench'd the fires of feudal rage.—Warton.
THIRD EDITION.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.
FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON; AND A. CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
1806.



King Easter has courted her for her lands, King Wester for her fee; King Honour for her comely face, And for her fair bodie.
They had not been four months married, As I have heard them tell, Until the nobles of the land Against them did rebel.