Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth / Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series

by Frank Sidgwick

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6.² ‘gare,’ part of the dress. See First Series, Introduction, p. 1.

And she has minded her on a little penknife,

That hangs low down by her gare,

And she has gin him Young Hunting

A deep wound and a sare.

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Out an’ spake the bonny bird,